Becoming Noble

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Becoming Noble
Becoming Noble
Death smiles at us all

Death smiles at us all

All a man can do is smile back

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Johann Kurtz
Mar 22, 2023
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What if a demon were to creep after you one night, in your loneliest loneliness, and say, 'This life which you live must be lived by you once again and innumerable times more; and every pain and joy and thought and sigh must come again to you, all in the same sequence. The eternal hourglass will again and again be turned and you with it, dust of the dus…

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