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[Anonymous No.20549645]

"Pain is vanquishing my life and my will." He wrote in a letter. "What months, what a summer I have had! My physical agonies were as many and various as the changes I have seen in the sky. In every cloud there is some form of electric charge which grips me suddenly and reduces me to complete misery. Five times I have called for Doctor Death, and yesterday I hoped it was the end — in vain.

"Though I am in my forty-fifth year and have published about fifteen books…there has not yet been a single even moderately reputable review of any one of my books. People help themselves out now with the phrases "eccentric," "pathological," "psychiatric"."

"It hurts me frightfully that in these fifteen years not one single person has 'discovered' me, has needed me, has loved me."

"How rarely a friendly voice reaches me! I’m now alone, absurdly alone…And for years not a word of comfort, not a drop of feeling, not a breath of love."

"It has been ten years already: not a sound reaches me any longer – a land without rain…If only I could give you some idea of my feeling of isolation. Neither among the living nor the dead is there anyone with whom I feel any kinship. This is inexpressibly horrible."

[Anonymous No.20549660]

As the sun was setting on 1888, Nietzsche was staying in Turin as a guest in the home of a prominent family, and it was at this time his behaviour took a fateful turn. In late November, while sauntering through the streets, Nietzsche reported increasing difficulty hiding his laughter and controlling his intense fits of glee.

"…my face was making continual grimaces in order to try to control my extreme pleasure, including, for 10 minutes, the grimace of tears."

Throughout the month of December, his letters were no longer signed off with the name "Friedrich Nietzsche", but with the name "Dionysus", "Nietzsche-Caesar", or else "the Crucified". In the period between Christmas and New Year, the guests in the house where Nietzsche was staying reported that for three days and nights Nietzsche remained locked in his room and, while naked, improvised on the piano, and sang and danced like a wild man possessed, in what appeared to be a one-man re-creation of a Dionysian festival. On January 3, 1889 while in the streets of Turin, upon witnessing a horse being whipped by its coachman, Nietzsche wrapped his arms around the horse, collapsed and passed out, and it is this event that many point to as signifying his break into madness. Over the next few days Nietzsche re-gained enough lucidity to write a few strange but beautiful letters to friends and family.

[Anonymous No.20549695]

>>20549645
What a weak faggot.

[Anonymous No.20549715]

>>20549645
Cioran wrote how much his letters humanise neech. Of course it could be said that that also invalidate his philosophy. The man or the mission?

It's somewhat reassuring, though mostly frightening, to know how many experience these thoughts, and at such 'advanced' ages, too. I can't sympathise with beseechments for death during illness: I'm constantly wishing for it.

[Anonymous No.20549804]

>>20549715
>Invalidated
Nietzsche's philosophy was never a finished thing and that everyone should take like gospel. Nietzsche knew what works for him won't work for others and that people should build upon with what he started. All of Plato and Kant's philosophy is invalidated because Nietzsche destroyed them in his books.

[Anonymous No.20549830]

>>20549715
>Of course it could be said that that also invalidate his philosophy
Only a retard can actually believe this

[Anonymous No.20549858]

>>20549804
>Of course it could be said that that also invalidate his philosophy
Only a retard can't actually believe this

[Anonymous No.20549866]

>>20549858
The need for socializing is not contradictive to the will to power.

[Anonymous No.20549899]

>>20549804
>neech invalidated kant
wew neechniggers are dumb

[Anonymous No.20549905]

>>20549830
>we must be above emotions and not care for other's opinions
>
The pathos of the originator of an idea doesn't necessarily invalidate it, but when it's so blatant, it might.

[Anonymous No.20549926]

>>20549804
You're dumb.

[Anonymous No.20550018]

>>20549899
>>20549926
Nietzsche called Kant a Chinaman, LMAO.

[× I V R I V S × !!GgBWHLRiayD No.20550180]

>>20549645


If he knew God he would have been united in the flames of nobility.

Comrade in arms, friend at hand —firsthand appreciation, secondhand inspiration.

https://soundcloud.com/user-637448757/malibu-200422#t=20:35

[× I V R I V S × !!GgBWHLRiayD No.20550201]

>>20549645


If he had known God he would have been united in the flames of nobility.

Comrade in arms, friend at hand —firsthand appreciation, secondhand inspiration.

https://soundcloud.com/user-637448757/malibu-200422#t=20:35

[Anonymous No.20550697]

>>20549899
Nietzsche destroyed Kant, essentially calling him a bugman who wrote a bunch of garbage during the French Revolution that had no bearing on the reality unfolding around him like a massive autist, and he obliterated his theory of categories.

[Anonymous No.20550788]

>>20549715
> and at such 'advanced' ages, too
I’m hoping the thing on the internet where people 30+ are “old” and basically considered dead goes away as millennials and zoomers age. Past 25 it’s all the same; there’s no internal sense of “old” until you have trouble with day-to-day mobility.

[Anonymous No.20550827]

>>20550201
filtered

[Anonymous No.20551059]

>all the subhuman drones ITT
You don't have an ounce of humanity left. Why the fuck do you even read? You are completely fried by modernity, there's nothing left in you.

[Anonymous No.20551120]

>>20549645
Jesus Christ what an incel, if only he had a gun.

[Anonymous No.20551134]

>>20550788
The reason it’s considered old because it’s typical to “graduate” from education at that age and feel a loss of potential. You look around and notice several things you might wished to do had you just started younger like the ones that are doing them. Outside Western countries discrimination of people over 30 still occurs when it comes to starting new things. They figure if you were really going to do it you’d have done it a long time ago and that’s how those over 30 feel also.

[Anonymous No.20551449]

>>20549645
Russell was right.
His "philosophy" is but power fantasies of a coping invalid

[Anonymous No.20552883]

>>20549645

[Anonymous No.20552989]

>>20549695
>>20551120
Nietzsche would have much preferred these responses to pity

[Anonymous No.20553555]

>>20549645
That’s sad and pathetic.