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NIETZSCHE AND THE THEORY OF THE DRIVES
“Suppose we were in the market place one day, and we noticed someone laughing at us as we went by: this event will signify this or that to us according to whether this or that drive happens at that moment to be at its height in us—and it will be a quite different event according to the kind of person we are. One person will absorb it like a drop of rain, another will shake it from him like an insect, another will try to pick a quarrel, another will examine his clothing to see if there is anything about it that might give rise to laughter, another will be led to reflect on the nature of laughter as such, another will be glad to have involuntarily augmented the amount of cheerfulness and sunshine in the world—and in each case, a drive has gratified itself, whether it be the drive to annoyance, or to combativeness or to reflection or to benevolence. This drive seized the event as its prey. Why precisely this one? Because, thirsty and hungry, it was lying in wait” Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudice of Morality by Friedrich Nietzsche. 1881
Capita che sfiori la vita di qualcuno, ti innamori e decidi che la cosa più importante è toccarlo, viverlo, convivere le malinconie e le inquietudini, arrivare a riconoscersi nello sguardo dell’altro, sentire che non ne puoi più fare a meno… e cosa importa se per avere tutto questo devi aspettare cinquantatré anni sette mesi e undici giorni notti comprese.
Gabriel García Márquez