Ultimately, because I'm an artist, I can't ever consider myself a nihilist, so I suppose I'm optimistic.
Life," Garp wrote, "is sadly not structured like a good old-fashioned novel. Instead an end occurs when those who are meant to peter out have petered out. All that is left is memory. But even a nihilist has memory.
The fact is that previously they were simply dunces and now they've suddenly become nihilists.
To be in opposition is not to be a nihilist.
A nihilist is not one who believes in nothing , but one who does not believe in what exists.
One cannot be a part-time nihilist.
I don't see any point in nihilism...just as I suppose the nihilist sees no point in everything else.
To be in opposition is not to be a nihilist. And there is no decent or charted way of making a living at it. It is something you are, and not something you do.
NIHILIST, n. A Russian who denies the existence of anything but Tolstoi. The leader of the school is Tolstoi.