“What if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: ‘This life as you now live it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will be nothing new in it, 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 . . . Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus?”
Yes I would. I would probably do that. It becomes easier to say this with certainty, to agre …
- March 8, 2022
