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this book is like if metaphysics was lit asf

I don't get it, yet

Thc very best of all things is completely beyond your reach: not to havc been born, not to be, to be nothing. But the second best thing for you is-to meet an early death.'

Man is no longer an artist, he has become a work of art: the artistic force of the whole of nature, to the most intense blissful satisfaction of the original Unity, reveals itself here in the shudder of intoxication.

'What gives tragedy its curious uplifting momentum,' he says in World as Will and Representation, II, 'is the dawning of the knowledge that the world, that life can offer no real satisfaction and as a result docs not merit our devotion: this is the essence of the tragic spirit-it leads accordingly to resignation.

for all life is founded on appearance, art, illusion, optic, the necessity of the perspectival and of error

where must tragedy have originated? Perhaps in joy, in strength, in overflowing health, in an excess of abundance? And what then is the meaning in physiological terms of that madness from which tragic and comic art grew, the Dionysian madness?

Hes kind pooping on schopenhauer right now

We do not mind so much:
With a thousand steps the woman arrives;
Yet no matter how she rushes,
With a single leap, the man gets there