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  Part one, Section twenty, Child and Marriage. I have a question for
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  THEE alone, my brother, Like a sounding lead, cast I this question
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  into thy soul, that I may know its depth. Thou art young and
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  desirous child and marriage. But I ask THEE. Art thou a man entitled
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  to desire a child? Art thou the victorious one, the self conqueror,
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  the ruler of thy passion, the master of thy virtues? Thus do I
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  ask THEE? Or doth the animal speak in thy wish and necessity or isolation
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  or discord? In THEE? I would have thy victory and freedom, long
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  for a child. Living monuments, Shalt thou build to thy victory and emancipation.
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  Beyond thyself, shalt thou build, But first of all, must thou
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  be built thyself rectangular in body and soul. Not only onward, shalt thou
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  propagate thyself, but upward. For that purpose, May the garden of marriage
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  help THEE? A higher body. Shalt thou create a first movement, a
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  spontaneously rolling wheel, a creating one. Shalt thou create marriage? So call
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  I the will of the twain, to create the one that is more than
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  those who created it. The reverence for one another as those exercising such a
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  will call I marriage. Let this be the significance and truth of thy marriage.
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  But that which the many, too many call marriage, those superfluous ones.
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  Ah, what shall I call it ah? The poverty of soul in
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  the Twain, Ah, the filth of soul in the twain Ah, the
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  pitiable self complacency in the twain marriage they call it all. And they say
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  their marriages are made in heaven. Well, I do not like it,
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  that heaven of the superfluous. No, I do not like them, those
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  animals tangled in the heavenly toils far from me. Also be the God who
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  limpeth thither to bless what he hath not matched, laugh not at such marriages,
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  what child hath not had reason to weep over its parents? Worthy?
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  Did this man seem and rite for the meaning of the earth. But when
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  I saw his wife, the earth seemed to me a home for madcaps.
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  YEA, I would that the earth shook with convulsions when a saint and a
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  goose mate with one another. This one went forth in quest of truth as
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  a hero, and at last got himself a small decked up lie his marriage.
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  He calleth it that one was reserved in intercourse, and chose choicely.
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  But one time he spoilt his company. For all time his marriage he calleth
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  it. Another sought a handmaid with the virtues of an angel, But all
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  at once he became the handmade of a woman. And now would he need
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  also to become an angel? Careful have I found all buyers, and all
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  of them have astute eyes. But even the astuteth of them buyeth his wife
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  in a sack many short follies, that is called love by you, and
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  your marriage putteth an end to many short follies with one long stupidity. Your
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  love to woman and woman's love to man. Ah would that it were sympathy
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  for suffering and veiled deities. But generally two animals alight on one another.
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  But even your best love is only an enraptured simile and a painful ardor it
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  is a torch to light you to loftier paths beyond yourselves. Shall you love
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  some day? Then learn first of all to love, And on that account
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  ye had to drink the bitter cup of your love. Bitterness is in the
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  cup even of the best love. Thus doth it cause longing for the Superman.
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  Thus doth it cause thirst in thee, the creating one, thirst in
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  the creating one, arrow and longing for the Superman. Tell me, my
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  brother, is this thy will to marriage? Holy call I such a will
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  and such a marriage, Thus spake Zarathustra. End of Part one, Chapter twenty