And therein lies the whole of mans plight. Human time does not turn in a circle it runs ahead in a straight line. That is why man cannot be happy happiness is the longing for repetition.
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The idea of eternal return is a mysterious one and Nietzsche has often perplexed other philosophers with it to think that everything recurs as we once experienced it and that the recurrence itself recurs ad infinitum What does this mad myth signify
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Between the approximation of the idea and the precision of reality there was a small gap of the unimaginable and it was this hiatus that gave him no rest.
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