* Are passions, love, and even life, fleeting dreams that are not worth the risk? What's the point of everything when life force fades away?
* It is to fight it, to fight with blood and blood, and fight with all your strength. Still watching it like a bystander or a judge, despite its colorful temptations, but still standing and watching coldly, unable to immerse, enjoy, conquer, so as not to be conquered by it.
* All great and beautiful things can only be looked up, not looked down, let alone examined inch by inch, otherwise they will lose their beauty. Life is beautiful, so it can only be looked up and revered. When you want to see it clearly, you have to get out of it, and you lose it. So Socrates will always be "Socrates in Suffering".
* Women bring men who want to control and conquer back into their lives, not out of life to control themselves and the world. Unfortunately, Camille failed to save Stephane. The seemingly peaceful and calm Stephane's greatest ambition is to transcend his own destiny, whether it is to get rid of the passion and pain of love, the trivialities of life, or the pain and horror of death.
* The world-weary
Nietzsche wrote in "Knowledge of Pleasure":
"What is the world-weary doing? He wants to reach a higher world, and wants to fly higher than all those who affirm life. . . . sacrificing it for the sake of upward desire."
"It's his desire, his complacency, his desire to surpass us, that he wants to hide from us. Yes! He's smarter than we think. More than that, and so courteous to us. What a life-affirming fellow! Although he is world-weary, he is no different from us.”
Whether Stephane is world-weary or not, it is impossible to judge, but there is no doubt that his state is the same as that of Nietzsche’s description of world-weary. The status is very similar.
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