“Life is a tragedy full of joy.”
Bernard Malamud (1914–1986) American author
New York Times (29 January 1979)
“The states in which we infuse a transfiguration and a fullness into things and poetize about them until they reflect back our fullness and joy in life…three elements principally: sexuality, intoxication and cruelty — all belonging to the oldest festal joys.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, book The Will to Power
Sec. 801 (Notebook W II 1. Fall 1887, KGW VIII, 2.57-8, KSA 12.393-4)
The Will to Power (1888)
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