by a sacrifice. In truth you only seen to sacrifice yourselves; the fact is that you transform yourselves in your minds into gods, and enjoy yourselves as such. If judged by this enjoyment—how weak and poor must appear to you all those "selfish" morals of obedience, duty and rationality: they are displeasing to you because here one has really to sacrifice and give oneself up, without the sacrificer deeming himself transformed into a god as you do. In short, you long for rapture and excess, and those morals which you despise point at rupture and I quite believe that they cause discomfort. excess.
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The evil ones and music.—Should the full felicity of love, which lies in implicit confidence, ever have fallen to the share of persons other than those deeply suspicious, evil and bitter? For these enjoy therein the prodigious, improbable and incredible exception of their souls. Some day they are overcome by that all-absorbing, dreamy sensation which forms the contrast to their whole secret and public life: like unto delightful mystery and miracle, full of golden splendour and baffling description and illustration. Implicit confidence renders us speechless; nay, this blissful silence even implies suffering and heaviness; wherefore souls, overwhelmed with happiness, generally feel more grateful to music than all other and better ones would do,
