eternal return

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In addition to celebrating formal variety and conceptual subtlety, the parallel installations establish the idea of the eternal return of images in Johns’s art.

From New York Times • Sep. 23, 2021

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

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