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Albert Camus, from Caligula & Other Plays; "State of Siege: A Play in Three Parts,"

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“By arguing from the position that life is and shall be valuable, which was self-evident to him, Nietzsche declared victory over Schopenhauer on the basis that pessimism destroys life. But one can probably say that Nietzsche did not understand Schopenhauer’s profound metaphysical dimension, because for Schopenhauer the negation of life and all that that implies is a demonstration of truth and not, as Nietzsche had it, the grounds for refutation.  We meet here the limits of the logical understanding. Nietzsche did not realize that he was trying to refute Schopenhauer on the basis of a dogmatic value-presupposition which was exactly the presupposition that his opponent rejected. This indicates an opposition of being which cannot be bridged by the intellect, just as one cannot reach a point on a line that is parallel to another one by staying on the latter. To search for peace between these two adversaries is the same as any other meritless venture: it is worse than useless because it falsifies the meaning of their opposition and,thus, the meaning of each one of them. On one hand, we have the conviction that life is valueless, which is based on selecting from all of the diverse and nonobservable meanings only monotony, the preponderance of suffering, and failure. On the other hand, we have the belief that life is value and that every deficiency is but a step toward a new attainment, every monotony but an interplay of infinite vitality, and every pain inconsequential in light of the surge of values in the process of realization in being and action. Such convictions are not theoretical knowledge but the expressions of the fundamental state of the soul.”

- Georg Simmel, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche (1907)

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Vintage pink glass perfume bottle

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Illustrations from J. R. R. Tolkien's The Fellowship of the Ring by Alan Lee (2002)

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Cover for Life Magazine by W. T. Benda (Nov. 1923)

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Illustration from The Two Brothers for Grimm's Fairy Tales by Elenore Abbott (1920)

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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) dir. Peter Jackson

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yummy star gouache painting

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The Temptation of St. Anthony (Eugène Isabey, 1869)

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Suddenly a mist fell from my eyes and I knew the way I had to take.

Edvard Grieg

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