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Reading (n.) a ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠thinker well means singing his melodies after him, hearing the soulful longing behind the cold words.

Reading (n.) Nietzsche, ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠in the end, reveals the reader: what he truly is will be decided by what others bring with them as they approach him.

Reading (n.) Nietzsche ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠demands a thinking feeling: not an intellectual game or passive watching, but an experiment with one's own passion.

Reading (n.) Nietzsche ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠must start from a passionate state, not end in one: take the book to the Lido for a day and read it whole, until it becomes a mood.

Reading (n.) Nietzsche ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠for style ends in disillusion: enraptured in youth, annoyed later, such readers keep only a critic, an aphorist and a stylist, and lose everything that mattered.