What if you had to live this exact moment over again, forever?

Nietzsche's thought experiment asks you to imagine a demon telling you that your life, down to every detail, will repeat identically an infinite number of times. He framed it as a test: if the thought horrifies you, you're not living the life you should want; meeting it with joy was, for him, close to an ideal.

— Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra — 1883
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