“The most spiritual men, as the strongest, find their happiness where others would find their destruction…”

Alps Crossing, 2023. It’s all mental.

“…in the labyrinth, in hardness against themselves and others, in experiments. Their joy is self conquest: asceticism becomes in them nature, need, and instinct. Difficult tasks are a privilege to them; to play with burdens that crush others, a recreation.”

-Friedrich Nietzsche, The Anti-Christ, 1895

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