Sunday, February 10, 2008

Another Great Passage from Nietzsche

""As regards a woman, for instance, the control over her body and her sexual gratification serves as an amply sufficient sign of ownership and possession to the more modest man; another with a more suspicious and ambitious thirst for possession, sees the "questionableness", the mere apparentness of such ownership, and wishes to have finer tests in order to know especially whether the woman not only gives herself to him, but also gives up for his sake what she has or would like to have-- only then does he look upon her as "possessed". A third, however, has not even here got to the limit of his distrust and his desire f0r possession: he asks himself whether the woman, when she gives up everything for him, does not perhaps do so for a phantom of him; he wishes first to be thoroughly, indeed, profoundly well known; in order to be loved at all he ventures to let himself be found out. Only then does he feel the beloved one fully in his possession, when she no longer deceives herself about him, when she loves him just as much f0r the sake of his devilry and concealed insatiability, as for his goodness, patience, and spirituality. ""

If only Nietzche were around that I could kiss him :-)

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