Almost everything I do now is a 'drawing-the-line under e...

Almost everything I do now is a 'drawing-the-line under everything'. The vehemence of my inner oscillations has been terrifying, all through these past years; now that I must make the transition to a new and more intense form, I need, above all, a new estrangement, a still more intense depersonalization. So it is of greatest importance what and who still remain to me.

What age am I? I do not know - as little as I know how young I shall become...

Nietzsche, from the letter to Fuchs (14 December 1887)