Seen from the outside, Nietzsche’s life during 1886 and 1887 looks quiet and harmless but it was during this time that, with all the fury of the neglected prophet, he was examining the foundations of our moral and intellectual traditions and taking a hammer to them in the books of his mature philosophy.

- I Am Dynamite

[The modern man has] no external enemies or obstacles but rips himself apart, persecutes himself, gnaws at himself, gives himself no peace, he is like an animal who batters himself raw on the bars of his cage.

- On The Genealogy Of Morality.

إنسانُ العصرِ الحالي ليس له أعداءٌ أو عَقبات خارجية، لكنّك تَراه مع ذلك يُمَزِّقُ ذاتَه لأشلاء ويَضطَهِد نَفسَه ويَنخُرُ في ذاتَه ولا يَمنَحها الراحة. هو في حالتِه هذه مثلَ حيوانٍ محبوسٍ يَضرِبُ نفسَه بشدّةٍ وبلا هوادة وهو يَدفَع جسدَه على جدرانِ قفصه.

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"How do you feel about breasts, do they frighten you?"

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He talked about his isolation and he quoted the words of Ovid that were engraved on Descartes’s tomb, ‘Bene vixit qui bene latuit’ (‘He lived well who hid well’).

- I Am Dynamite

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When he came across a young Irish girl making studies of wild flowers, he advised her to put something ugly into the picture. The beauty of the flowers would be emphasised by the contrast. A few days later he captured a toad, and put it in his trouser pocket. He brought it to the artist, very pleased with himself. She retaliated by catching some grasshoppers and putting them in a bonbon jar. She knew that he was very fond of sweets. When he unscrewed the lid, out they jumped. The intimate circle of summer tourists deemed this an excellent exchange of practical jokes.

- I Am Dynamite

قال أبو تمَام في مغنيّة تغنَي بالفارسيَة ولم يفهمْ ما تقول:

وَلَمْ أفْهَم مَعانِيهَا ولكن
ورتْ كَبدِي فَلَمْ أَجْهل شجاها

فبتُّ كأنَّني أعْمَى مُعنًّى
يحبُّ الغانِياتِ ولا يراها (٢)

فالمشبه هنا حال الشاعر يثير نغم المغنية بالفارسية في نفسه كوامن الشوق وهو لا يفهم لغتها، والمشبه به حال الأعمى يعشق الغانيات وهو لا يرى شيئا من حسنهن، ووجه الشبه هو صورة قلب يتأثر وينفعل بأشياء لا يدركها كل الإدراك.

(٢) ورت كبدي: ألهبته، والشجا: الحزن والطرب، والمعنى: لم أجهل ما بعثته في نفسي من الحزن، والمعنى: المتعب الحزين.

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He had written music to accompany Lou’s poem, the ‘Prayer to Life’, which he had renamed ‘Hymn to Life’ (Hymnus an das Leben).
He expressed the hope that it should be played in his memory at some future time, by which he presumably meant his funeral, and he reiterated the idea that, at least in this small way, he and Lou had now been joined together for posterity.

- I Am Dynamite

I genuinely hate academia

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