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 4O THUS SPAKE ZARATHUSTRA, I

The creative self created for itself valuing and despising, it created for itself lust and woe. The creative body created for itself the spirit to be the hand of its will.

Even in your folly and contempt, ye despisers of body, ye are serving your self. I say unto you : your self itself is going to die and turneth away from life.

No longer is it able to do what it liketh best : to create something beyond itself. That it liketh best, that is its whole enthusiasm.

But now it is too late for it to attain that purpose : your self seeketh to perish, ye despisers of body.

Your self seeketh to perish and therefore ye are become despisers of body ! For no longer are ye able to create anything beyond yourselves.

And therefore are ye now angry at life and earth. An unconscious envy is in the sidelong look of your contempt.

I go not your way, ye despisers of body ! Ye are no bridges to beyond-man ! "

Thus spake Zarathustra.

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