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For it is only as an aesthetic phenomenon that existence and the world are eternally justified.

The demigod said not a word, till at last, urged by the king, he gave a shrill laugh and broke out into these words: 'Oh, wretched ephemeral race, children of chance and misery, why do you compel me to tell you what it would be most expedient for you not to hear? What is best of all is utterly beyond your reach: not to be born, not to be, to be nothing. But the second best for you is to die soon.'

"It is apparent that it was a whole cluster of grave questions with which this book burdened itself.
Let us add the gravest question of all. What, seen in the perspective of life, is the significance of morality?"

I unfortunately finished the Birth of Tragedy in an oddly anxious haze, thus I could not comprehend it in its entirety.

I believe Nietzsche acknowledges this in his later writings, but his deeply Apollonian tendencies had drawn him too far into a binary which I have only noticed until now.