“ Affirmation of life even in its strangest and sternest problems, the will to life rejoicing in its own inexhaustibility through the sacrifice of its highest types: that is what I called Dionysian, that is what I recognized as the bridge to the psychology of the tragic poet. Not so as to get rid of pity and terror, not so as to purify oneself of a dangerous emotion through its vehement discharge but, beyond pity and terror, to realize in oneself the eternal joy of becoming — that joy which also encompasses joy in destruction.
Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
