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>What’s better than serving up smiles?
>Being dead or anything else

Why is this book so hard to read? It's not that the language is above my level, and with some reflection, I can understand the majority of the philosophies Nietzsche writes about, but I just can't make myself read more than 10 pages per day. Why?

Is this the greatest book ever written?

So the tightrope walker is humanity, which is perfectly balanced between Apollonian and Dionysian virtue, and then the Devil is the idea of Christianity and it's slave morality that knocks humanity down and kills it, and then Nietzsche (Zarathustra) has to fix humanity.

RIght?

Is it worth it to buy this book? So far the plot and mentioned topics reveal interesting thoughts but I read of several opinions saying Nietzsche wrote in a cryptical manner and it's impossible to understand the arc without knowing his personal history. So? Is this piece /lit/ approved?

hey /lit/, could u help me out a little?

Ive been looking for a certain quote from Nietzsche's "Thus spoke Zarathustra" - ive got it in my native language, which is not english, and wanted to find the english version of it.

It was around page 36, the part "About reading and writing", and its something like:

"Truth is, we love the life not because to the life, but to loving we are used to."

Could you guys find that part and give me the original quote?

In return, +5 internets