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 Il8 THUS SPAKE ZARATHUSTRA, II

Willing delivereth : that is the true doctrine of will and freedom thus ye are taught by Zarathustra.

No-longer-willing, and no-longer-valuing, and no- longer-creating ! Oh, that that great weariness were for ever far from me !

Even in perception I feel only the lust of my will to procreate and grow ; and if there be innocence in my perception, it is because there is in it will unto procreation.

This will enticed me away from God and Gods; for what could be created, if there were Gods !

But mine ardent will to create impelleth me unto man ever anew. Thus the hammer is impelled unto the stone.

Alas, ye men, in the stone there sleepeth for me an image, the image of all mine images ! Alas, that it should have to sleep in the hardest and ugliest stone !

Now my hammer rageth cruelly against its prison. Pieces fly off from the stone : what doth it concern me ?

I shall finish it. For a shadow came unto me the stillest and lightest of all things once came unto me !

The beauty of beyond-man came unto me as a shadow. Alas, my brethren ! What do Gods concern me!"

Thus spake Zarathustra.

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