§ 276
For the New Year
Genoa, January
MDCCCLXXXII
Amor fati: das sei von nun an meine Liebe!
I want more and more to perceive the necessary characters in things as the beautiful:—I shall thus be one of those who beautify things. Amor fati: let that henceforth be my love! I do not want to wage war with the ugly. I do not want to accuse, I do not want even to accuse the accusers. Looking aside, let that be my sole negation! And all in all, to sum up: I wish to be at any time hereafter only a yea-sayer!
Friedrich Nietzsche
The Joyful Wisdom, IV
Translated by
Thomas Common, 1910