Transcendence is the revolt against the unbroken wheel of time, and the desire for a perfected state beyond the degenerating interdiction of time. There have been eras of peace and prosperity no one would have hesitated to stop the clocks forever for; Nietzsche was right that the joy of a moment could affirm the whole of eternity. So we rest on the joy of the eternal return, hoping again for that one ecstatic moment of aesthetic ecstasy which affirms the whole of eternity.
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