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“For Nietzsche hope was the most pernicious of all the creatures in the jar because hope prolongs the agony of man's existence. Zeus had included it in the jar because he wanted it to escape and torment mankind every day with the false promise of something good to come. With hope, Nietzsche argued, we are foolish enough to believe there is a point to existence, an end and a promise.”