"The optimistic nature finds joy in the very feeling for life; the pessimistic nature finds a feeling for life only in joy."

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Notebook entry, Summer 1882; cited in Rudolph Binion's Frau Lou (Princeton University Press, 1968) p. 91, translation by Rudolph Binion