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Thus Spake Zarathustra

 
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CONTENTS THUS SPAKE ZARATHUSTRA

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Thus Spake Zarathustra
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Zarathustra's Prologue
 
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FIRST PART.
 
1. The Three Metamorphoses
 
2. The Academic Chairs of Virtue
 
3. Backworldsmen
 
4. The Despisers of the Body
 
5. Joys and Passions
 
6. The Pale Criminal
 
7. Reading and Writing
 
8. The Tree on the Hill
 
9. The Preachers of Death
 
10. War and Warriors
 
11. The New Idol
 
12. The Flies in the Market-Place
 
13. Chastity
 
14. The Friend
 
15. The Thousand and One Goals
 
16. Neighbour-Love
 
17. The Way of the Creating One
 
18. Old and Young Women
 
19. The Bite of the Adder
 
20. Child and Marriage
 
21. Voluntary Death
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22. The Bestowing Virtue
 
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SECOND PART.
 
23. The Child with the Mirror
 
24. In the Happy Isles
 
25. The Pitiful
 
26. The Priests
 
27. The Virtuous
 
28. The Rabble
 
29. The Tarantulas
 
30. The Famous Wise Ones
 
31. The Night-Song
 
32. The Dance-Song
 
33. The Grave-Song
 
34. Self-Surpassing
 
35. The Sublime Ones
 
36. The Land of Culture
 
37. Immaculate Perception
 
38. Scholars
 
39. Poets
 
40. Great Events
 
41. The Soothsayer
 
42. Redemption
 
43. Manly Prudence
 
44. The Stillest Hour
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THIRD PART.
 
45. The Wanderer
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46. The Vision and the Enigma
 
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47. Involuntary Bliss
 
48. Before Sunrise
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49. The Bedwarfing Virtue
 
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50. On the Olive-Mount
 
51. On Passing-by
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52. The Apostates
 
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53. The Return Home
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54. The Three Evil Things
 
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55. The Spirit of Gravity
 
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56. Old and New Tables
 
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57. The Convalescent
 
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58. The Great Longing
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59. The Second Dance Song
 
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60. The Seven Seals (OR THE YEA AND AMEN LAY.)
 
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FOURTH AND LAST PART.
 
61. The Honey Sacrifice
 
62. The Cry of Distress
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63. Talk with the Kings
 
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64. The Leech
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65. The Magician
 
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66. Out of Service
 
67. The Ugliest Man
 
68. The Voluntary Beggar
 
69. The Shadow
 
70. Noontide
 
71. The Greeting
 
72. The Supper
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73. The Higher Man
 
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74. The Song of Melancholy
 
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75. Science
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76. Among Daughters of the Desert
 
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77. The Awakening
 
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78. The Ass-Festival
 
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79. The Drunken Song
 
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80. The Sign

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"Why should one live? All is vain! To live-that is to thresh straw; to live-that is to burn oneself and yet not get warm.-

Such ancient babbling still passeth for "wisdom"; because it is old, however, and smelleth mustily, therefore is it the more honoured. Even mould ennobleth.-

Children might thus speak: they shun the fire because it hath burnt them! There is much childishness in the old books of wisdom.

And he who ever "thresheth straw," why should he be allowed to rail at threshing! Such a fool one would have to muzzle!

Such persons sit down to the table and bring nothing with them, not even good hunger:-and then do they rail: "All is vain!"

But to eat and drink well, my brethren, is verily no vain art! Break up, break up for me the tables of the never-joyous ones!

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