Was it possible to feel nostalgic about something that had never happened to him, possible for nostalgia to be taken in by the body as a free pathogen to infect the consciousness with stray sentiments? Perhaps, in his dreams, he had traveled back in time, or even drifted into another dimension of space-time and inhabited the body, experiences, and nostalgia of another. To even envisage so allowed the trauma of those lost moments, though not his own, to draw from him a certain envy for the entity in whose memories he had basked vicariously. . .Perhaps, nostalgia was a microorganism. . .the bacterium that infected. . . Yes. . .maybe he was sick.
Existential envy which is directed against the other person__ very nature, is the strongest source of ressentiment. It is as if it whispers continually: __ can forgive everything, but not that you are_ that you are what you are__hat I am not what you are__ndeed that I am not you._ This form of envy strips the opponent of his very existence, for this existence as such is felt to be a __ressure,_ a __eproach,_ and an unbearable humiliation. In the lives of great men there are always critical periods of instability, in which they alternately envy and try to love those whose merits they cannot but esteem. Only gradually, one of these attitudes will predominate. Here lies the meaning of Goethe__ reflection that __gainst another__ great merits, there is no remedy but love.
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Existential envy which is directed against the other person__ very nature, is the strongest source of ressentiment. It is as if it whispers continually: __ can forgive everything, but not that you are_ that you are what you are__hat I am not what you are__ndeed that I am not you._ This form of envy strips the opponent of his very existence, for this existence as such is felt to be a __ressure,_ a __eproach,_ and an unbearable humiliation. In the lives of great men there are always critical periods of instability, in which they alternately envy and try to love those whose merits they cannot but esteem. Only gradually, one of these attitudes will predominate. Here lies the meaning of Goethe__ reflection that __gainst another__ great merits, there is no remedy but love.
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