"Kommerell does not go as far as Nietzsche when he talks of the "wilderness of bitterest and most superfluous agonies of soul in which probably the most fruitful men of all times have languished! To listen to the sighs of these solitary and agitated minds: 'Ah, give me madness, you heavenly powers! Madness that I may at last believe in myself!...'""(JCRT Issue 4.2 : Laughter as Gesture: Hilarity and the Anti-Sublime)

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