It is like music.
Over time, you identify those songs which you like a lot;
they keep adding up: sometimes a new song just struck a nameless chord in you
and it was instant love.
Eventually it got to the point that you have to listen to them wherever you go
so you burned them into a compilation of favourite songs,
or into your mp3 player, ipod.
And you play it ad infinitum
the same songs over and over again.
Then you realised,
that actually
amongst these songs
there are only 1 or 2 which you really love
from beginning to end.
For believe me! — the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment is: to live dangerously! Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius! Send your ships into uncharted seas! Live at war with your peers and yourselves! Be robbers and conquerors as long as you cannot be rulers and possessors, you seekers of knowledge! — Nietzsche, The Gay Science
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