What does the man of renunciation do? He strives for a
higher world, he wants to fly further and higher than all men of affirmation –
he throws away much that would encumber his flight, including not a little that
he esteems and likes; he sacrifices it to his desire for the heights. This sacrificing,
this throwing away, however, is precisely what alone becomes visible and leads
people to call him the man of renunciation: it is such that he confronts us,
shrouded in his hood, as if her were the soul of a hairshirt. But he is quite
satisfied with the impression he makes on us: he wants to conceal from us his
desire, his pride, his intention to soar beyond
us – this man of affirmation. For that is what he is, no less than we, even
in his renunciation.
- The Joyful
Science, Book One, § 27, by Friedrich Nietzsche
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All right, enough Nietzsche. My little interlude from reality. Now I’m back. Regularly scheduled programming to recommence.
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