"I have often asked myself whether I am not more heavily obligated to the hardest years of my life than to any others. As my inmost nature teaches me, whatever is necessary as seen from the heights and in the sense of a great economy is also the useful par excellence: one should not only bear it, one should love it. Amor fati: that is my inmost nature. And as for my long sickness, do I not owe it indescribably more than I owe to my health? I owe it a higher health one which is made stronger by whatever does not kill it. I also owe my philosophy to it. Only great pain is the ultimate liberator of the spirit. Only great pain, that long, slow pain in which we are burned with green wood, as it were - pain which takes its time only this forces us philosophers to descend into our ultimate depths and to put away all trust, all good-naturedness, all that would veil, all mildness, all that is medium things in which formerly we may have found our humanity. I doubt that such a pain makes us better, but I know that it makes us more profound.
From, Nietzsche Contra Wagner, (Epilogue)

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I really am such a nice guy.

I have allowed my works to be used for everything from band posters, to club fliers, to CD covers, and what have I asked for in return... a credit to where the art came from and nothing else.

I know I’m an idealist, I think that ‘common courtesy’, ‘please and thank you’, and asking someone before taking original works of art from their site should be, to most people, universally obvious acts of personal conduct. Yes I know that these simple concepts have no place in the real world, but I don’t have much use for the real world or the obtuse pieces of flotsam that inhabit it.

If you like my work well enough to want to use it, please have the common courtesy to ask first.

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