What, if some day or night, a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: ‘This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more'. Would you not gnash your teeth and curse the demonIJ Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: ‘You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine.'