Life itself created this thought which is the most oppressive for life. Life wishes to get beyond its greatest obstacle I
We must desire to perish in order to arise afresh,—from one day to the other. Wander through a hundred souls,—let that be thy life and thy fate! And then finally: desire to go through the whole process once more!
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The highest thing of all would be for us to be able to endure our immortality.
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The moment in which I begot recurrence is immortal, for the sake of that moment alone I will endure recurrence.
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The teaching of eternal recurrence—it is at first oppressive to the more noble souls and apparently a means of weeding them out,—then the inferior and less sensitive natures would remain over! “This doctrine must be suppressed and Zarathustra killed.”
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