In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods. All the cruelty and torment of which the world is full is in fact merely the necessary result of the totality of the forms under which the will to live is objectified. We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.
Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
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