"Our entire past is an eternal lamp that appears in relation to that eternal will to turn on and off the eternal lights of being – that is, the belief that we have the power to turn them on and off. Concomitant with this will – when this will wants to extinguish the lamp of being – appear the darkness of pain and anguish. The pain of the world is the darkness that appears when one believes one has the power to extinguish the lamp of being: it is the eternal star of the night with which destiny responds to the provocation of Madness. [...] In the affairs of peoples, no force can extinguish the lamps of the past, it does not have the power to extinguish them: the darkness of the pain of the world is destiny's response to the provocation of mortals. Provocation wants the impossible [...] and obtains ambiguous answers [...]. Destiny always sends something other than what mortals want and delude themselves into obtaining. [.. .] The sending is not a “choice” or a “decision”; it is the inevitable passing, in the vault of appearance, of the eternal constellations of being. However, it is possible that fate will bring the madness of the will to power to an end and that, after the constellations of Night, the constellations of Day and Joy will arrive. (chap. XXXIX, pp. 361-362)"