NIETZSCHE : every action you choose, you choose for all time - When Nietzsche Wept - Eternal Return

NIETZSCHE : "You have achieved a great deal. But have you lived your life? Or have you lived by it? You stand ourside your life, grieving, for some life that you never lived. I cannot tell you how to live differently If I did, you'd still be living by some other's design, but perhaps I could give you a gift. Maybe I could give you a thought.

What if some demon were to say to you that this life, as you now live it, have lived it in the past, you would have to live it once more but innumerable times more. There will be nothing new in it. Every pain, every joy, every unutterably small or great thing in your life would just return to you. The same succession, the same sequence, again and again, like an hourglass of time.

Imagine infinity. Consider the possibility that every action you choose, you choose for all time. Then all unlived life would remain inside you. Unlived. Throughout eternity. You like this idea? Or do you hate it? Which?"