11 Oct A second mask! (FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE)
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Wanderer, who are you? I watch you go on your way, without scorn, without love, with impenetrable eyes – damp and downhearted, like a plumb line that returns unsatisfied from every depth back into the light (what was it looking for down there?), with a breast that does not sigh, with lips that hide their disgust, with a hand that only grips slowly: who are you? What have you done?
Take a rest here, this spot is hospitable to everyone, – relax! And whoever you may be: what would you like now?
What do you find relaxing? Just name it: I’ll give you whatever I have! – “Relaxing? Relaxing?
How inquisitive you are! What are you saying! But please, give me – –” What? What? Just say it! – “Another mask! A second mask!” …
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People with deep sorrows reveal this fact about themselves when they are happy: they have a way of grasping hold of happiness, as if they wanted to crush or suffocate it, out of jealousy. Oh, they know only too well that it will run away from them!
Beyond good and evil
Friedrich Nietzsche
