The Eternal Recurrance of the Same
Friedrich Nietzsche
What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you:
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"This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more;
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and there will be nothing new in it,
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but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh and everything unutterably small or great in your life will have to return to you,
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all in the same succession and sequence—
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even this spider and this moonlight between the trees, and even this moment and I myself.
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The eternal hourglass of existence is turned upside down again and again, and you with it, speck of dust!"
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Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus?
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Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him:
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