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“Dionysus versus the 'Crucified': there you have the antithesis. It is not a difference in regard to their martyrdom — it is a difference in the meaning of it. Life itself, its eternal fruitfulness and recurrence, creates torment, destruction, the will to annihilation. In the other case, suffering —the 'Crucified as the innocent one'— counts as an objection to this life, as a formula to its condemnation.”
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“Untroubled, scornful, outrageous - that is how wisdom wants us to be: she is a woman and never loves anyone but a warrior.”
― Thus Spoke Zarathustra
― Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“In loneliness, the lonely one eats himself; in a crowd, the many eat him. Now choose.”
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“You have evolved from worm to man, but much within you is still worm. Once you were apes, yet even now man is more of an ape than any of the apes.”
― Thus Spoke Zarathustra
― Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“And a saint put it a saintly way: [The arranging of funerals, the choosing of tombs and the pomp of obsequies are consolations for the living rather than supports for the dead.] That is why Socrates (when Crito asked him in his final moments how he wanted to be buried) replied, ‘Just as you wish.’
If I had to trouble myself further, I would find it more worthy to imitate those who set about enjoying the disposition and honour of their tombs while they are still alive and breathing, and who take pleasure in seeing their dead faces carved in marble. Happy are they who can please and delight their senses with things insensate – and who can live off their death.”
― Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete
If I had to trouble myself further, I would find it more worthy to imitate those who set about enjoying the disposition and honour of their tombs while they are still alive and breathing, and who take pleasure in seeing their dead faces carved in marble. Happy are they who can please and delight their senses with things insensate – and who can live off their death.”
― Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete
Tristan’s 2025 Year in Books
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