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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: evil.
154. Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are
signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology.
155. The sense of the tragic increases and declines with
sensuousness.
156. Insanity in individuals is something rare--but in groups,
parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule.
157. The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of
it one gets successfully through many a bad night.
158. Not only our reason, but also our conscience, truckles to
our strongest impulse--the tyrant in us.
 Beyond Good and Evil |