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“Behold, we know what you teach: that all things recur eternally and we ourselves with them, and that we have already existed an infinite number of times before and all things with us.”

oh how i love this. it’s reassuring and beautiful to know that we have already existed before and will continually doing so. we are infinite.

“And truly, to learn to love oneself is no commandment for today or for tomorrow. Rather is this art the finest, subtlest, ultimate, and most patient of all.”

“In order to see much one must learn to look away from oneself.”

“It is my poverty that my hand never rests from giving; it is my envy that I see my expectant eyed and illumined nights of desire.”

“That they speak well of life, these poison spiders, although they sit in their caves and with their backs turned on life, is because they want to do harm by speaking well of life.”

“They want to scratch out the eyes of their enemies with their virtue; and they raise themselves only in order to lower others.”

“Their knees are always worshiping and their hands are glorifications of virtue, but their heart knows nothing of it.”

“But you yourself will always be the worst enemy you can encounter.”

“You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame: how could you become new, if you had not first become ashes?”

SHIBAL MY LIFE 💔🥀

“But you must understand how to be a sponge if you want to be loved by overflowing hearts.”

“Let your love towards life be love towards your highest hope: and let your highest hope be the highest idea of life!”

“Thus began Zarathustra’s down-going.”

O, Zarathustra, if you go low, I go lower.