In Beyond Good and Evil, Nietzsche affirms that
"whoever despises himself still respects himself as one who despises."
Quoted late in Chuck Barris's Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, translated for film by George Clooney from the screenplay by the suddenly ubiquitous Charlie Kaufman, the aphorism perfectly captures the duality of self-loathing cum self-adoration that is the paradox of the modern confessional.
