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Friedrich Nietzsche

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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.
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Sec. 801 ( Notebook W II 1. Fall 1887, KGW VIII, 2.57-8, KSA 12.393-4).

 
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