The choice of nutrition; the choice
of climate and place: the third
point at which one must not commit
a blunder at any price is the choice
of one's own kind of recreation.
Reading is precisely my recreation
from my own seriousness. During per-
iods when I am hard at work you will
not find me surrounded by books: I'd
beware of letting anyone near me talk,
much less think. And that is what
reading would mean.
He possessed that divine malice
without which I cannot imagine perfection:
I estimate the value of men, of races, ac-
cording to the necessity by which they can-
not conceive the god apart from the satyr.
Friedrich Nietzsche
on Heinrich Heine
1888
Ecce Homo
How one becomes
what one is
op. cit.
Random House, 1966©
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