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Birth of Tragedy #2: 1-3 (The Two Art-Forces)

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The Dionysian Artistic Power

When you experience the dionycian artistic a force, or that sort of artistic power, you yourself are not the artist. You are a the work of art. And so too, he says, intoxicated reality, which, likewise does not heed the single unit, but even then seeks to destroy the individual and redeem him by a mystic feeling of oneness. He goes on to say, with reference to these immediate art states of nature, every artist is an imitator. That is to either an apollynian artist in dreams, or a dionysian artist in ecstasies,. Or finally, as for example, in greek tragedy, a at once

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