eternal return

Example Sentences

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No matter what, there will be an eternal return to the question of the Irish border.

From The Guardian • Jul. 23, 2019

And so her recycling begins to resemble a spiritual exercise — a belief in the eternal return.

From Washington Post • Jul. 25, 2017

Yet these newcomers mirror familiar presences with the eerie air of an eternal return.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 16, 2015

But what at first seems like a cyclical structure — the eternal return, the renewal of the seasons and the transition of generations — appears increasingly, and poignantly, like a one-way voyage.

From New York Times • Dec. 9, 2011

And the eternal return also of the smallest man!—that was my disgust at all existence!

From Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none by Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm