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  Part one, Chapter nine. The Preachers of death. There are preachers of
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  death, and the earth is full of those to whom desistance from life must
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  be preached. Full is the earth of the superfluous, marred as life by
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  the many. Too many, May they be decoyed out of this life by
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  the life eternal. The yellow ones so are called the preachers of death,
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  or the black ones. But I will show them unto you in other colors.
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  Besides, there are the terrible ones, who carry about in themselves the
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  beast of prey, and have no choice except lusts or self laceration. And
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  even their lusts are self laceration. They have not yet become men. Those
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  terrible ones, May they preach desistance from life and pass away themselves. There
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  are the spiritually consumptive ones. Hardly are they born. When they begin to
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  die and long for doctrines of lassitude and renunciation, they would fain be dead,
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  and we should approve of their wish. Let us beware of awakening those
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  dead ones, and of death imaging those living coffins. They meet an invalid,
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  or an old man, or a corpse, and immediately they say life
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  is refuted. But they only are refuted and their eye, which seeth only
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  one aspect of existence, shrouded in thick melancholy, and eager for the little
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  casualties that bring death. Thus do they wait and clench their teeth, Or
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  else they grasp at sweetmeats and mock at their childishness. Thereby they cling to
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  their straw of life and mock it. Their still clinging to it, their
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  wisdom speaketh, thus a fool he who remaineth alive. But so far are
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  we fools, And that is the foolishest thing in life. Life is only
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  suffering, so say others, and lie not. Then see to it that
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  ye cease, see to it that the life ceaseth, which is only suffering.
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  And let this be the teaching of your virtue. Thou shalt slay thyself,
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  Thou shalt steal away from thyself. Lust is sin, so say some
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  who preach death. Let us go apart and beget no children. Giving birth
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  is troublesome, say others. Why still give birth? One beareth only the
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  unfortunate, And they also are preachers of death. Pity is necessary, So
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  saith a third party. Take what I have, Take what I am.
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  So much less doth life bind me? Were they consistently pitiful. Then would
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  they make their neighbors sick of life, to be wicked, That would be
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  their true goodness. But they want to be rid of life? What care
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  they if they bind others still faster with their chains and gifts. And ye
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  also to whom life is rough, labor and disquiet, are ye not very
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  tired of life? Are ye not very ripe for the sermon of death?
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  All ye to whom rough labor is dear, and the rapid new and strange,
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  ye put up with yourselves badly. Your diligence is flight, and the
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  will to self forgetfulness. If ye believed more in life, then would ye
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  devote yourselves less to the momentary. But for waiting, ye have not enough
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  of capacity in you, not even for idling. Everywhere resoundeth the voices of
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  those who preach death, And the earth is full of those to whom death
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  hath to be preached, or life eternal. It is all the same to
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  me, if only they pass away quickly. Thus spake Zarathustra. End of
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  Part one, Chapter nine,