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“These 'orgies of pride' kept growing in Nietzsche, especially from The Joyful Wisdom onwards, and made him regard all craving for pleasure or happiness as a high road towards weakness or even spiritual slavery. His ideal became the true warrior: free, virile, and full of contempt for easy comfort. The measure of freedom itself became, in his opinion, above all the resistance which had to be overcome in order to 'remain uppermost'.”
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“He feels within him his longing for happiness and for reason. The absurd is born of this confrontation between the human need and the unreasonable silence of the world.”
― The Myth of Sisyphus
― The Myth of Sisyphus
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