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The Gay Science 341

Friedrich Nietzsche
The Hall of Fragments

“This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh and everything unutterably small or great in your life will have to return to you, all in the same succession and sequence—even this spider and this moonlight between the trees, and even this moment and I myself. The eternal hourglass of existence is turned upside down again and again—and you with it, speck of dust!”

 

 

He described the prison with remarkable precision. I wonder if he ever found the door.

If the loop is real, then every choice echoes forever.