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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche: thee! "To refresh me? To refresh me? Oh, thou prying one, what
sayest thou! But give me, I pray thee---" What? what? Speak out!
"Another mask! A second mask!"
279. Men of profound sadness betray themselves when they are
happy: they have a mode of seizing upon happiness as though they
would choke and strangle it, out of jealousy--ah, they know only
too well that it will flee from them!
280. "Bad! Bad! What? Does he not--go back?" Yes! But you
misunderstand him when you complain about it. He goes back like
every one who is about to make a great spring.
281.--"Will people believe it of me? But I insist that they
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