Nietzsche’s aphoristic style lends itself to dipping into a few lines. Over the years I read all of Nietzsche’s published books, though undoubtedly in less reliable translations and editions than are now starting to become available. Though Nietzsche’s thinking only partially penetrated my younger self, he left me fortified with the necessity of going deeply into myself to fully experience life. Nietzsche faced down the nihilism of his age with style, humour and strength. He speaks to their complexity and anguish, and they approve of his desire to shatter the tenets of their culture.
I can no longer recall what I read first, probably the yellowing Thus Spake Zarathustra, annotated in two different pens, that still sits on my bookshelf. Since I was seventeen I’ve read Nietzsche.
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