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O my brethren, am I then cruel? But I say: What falleth, that shall one also push!

Everything of today-it falleth, it decayeth; who would preserve it! But I-I wish also to push it!

Know ye the delight which rolleth stones into precipitous depths?-Those men of today, see just how they roll into my depths!

A prelude am I to better players, O my brethren! An example! Do according to mine example!

And him whom ye do not teach to fly, teach I pray you-to fall faster!-