Kyle

“What could destroy us more quickly than working, thinking, and feeling without any inner necessity, without any deeply personal choice, without pleasure - as an automaton of "duty"? This is the very recipe for decadence, even for idiocy.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, The Anti-Christ

“Everything that can be denied, deserves to be denied; and real sincerity means the belief in a state of things which cannot be denied, or in which there is no lie. The sincere man feels that his activity has a metaphysical meaning. It can only be explained by the laws of a different and a higher life; it is in the deepest sense an affirmation: even if everything that he does seem utterly opposed to the laws of our present life.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Schopenhauer as Educator

“But there is no such substratum; there is no "being" behind doing, effecting, becoming; "the doer" is merely a fiction added to the deed-the deed is everything.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals

“And he was beginning to feel that discouragement which is engendered by a life of repetition, when no interest guides nor expectation sustains it.”
― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary