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For that soul which hath the longest ladder and can step down deepest how should not the most parasites sit on it?
The most comprehensive soul which can within itself go furthest and stray and rove ; the most necessary one which from lust precipitateth itself into chance ;
The being soul which diveth down into becoming ; the having one that longeth to get into willing and desiring ;
The soul fleeing from itself and catching itself in the widest circle; the wisest soul, unto which foolish- ndss speaketh sweetest ;
The soul that loveth itself most, in which all things have their streaming and back streaming and ebb and flood ! Oh ! how should the highest soul not have the worst parasites ?
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O my brethren, say, am I cruel ? But I say : ' What is falling already, shall be struck down.'
The All of to-day it falleth, it decayeth. Who would keep it ? But I, I will strike down it be- sides !
Know ye the voluptuousness that rolleth stones into steep depths? These men of to-day look at them, how they roll into my depths !
A prelude I am of better players, O my brethren ! An example ! Act after mine example !
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