einmal ist keinmal
“therefore let us agree that the idea of eternal return implies a perspective from which things appear other than as we know them: they appear without the mitigating circumstance of their transitory nature. this mitigating circumstance prevents us from coming to a verdict. for how can we condemn something that is ephemeral, in transit? in the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine.”
-unbearable lightness of being