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 5<D THUS SPAKE ZARATHUSTRA, I

soap-bubbles, and whatever is of their kind among men, know most of happiness.

To see these light, foolish, delicate, mobile little souls flitting about that moveth Zarathustra to tears and to song.

I could believe only in a God who would know how to dance.

And when I saw my devil, I found him earnest, thorough, deep, solemn : he was the spirit of gravity, through him all things fall.

Not through wrath but through laughter one slayeth. Arise ! let us slay the spirit of gravity !

I learned to walk : now I let myself run. I learned to fly: now I need no pushing to move me from the spot.

Now I am light, now I fly, now I see myself be- neath myself, now a God danceth through me."

Thus spake Zarathustra.

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