22/28 It is not enough to possess a talent: one must also have your permission to possess it;--eh, my friends? "Where there is the tree of knowledge, there is always Paradise": so say the most ancient and the most modern serpents. What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil. Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology. The sense of the tragic increases and declines with sensuousness. |