OF THE THREE EVIL ONES 2/3
all stinking rags, the ready oven of love-fire and stewing.
Voluptuousness for free hearts innocent and free, the garden-joy of earth, the overflowing thankfulness of all the future towards the present.
Voluptuousness a sweet poison unto the withered only, but the great invigoration of the heart and the reverently spared wine of wines for those who have the will of a lion.
Voluptuousness the great prototype of a higher happiness and the highest hope. For unto many things matrimony is promised and more than matri- mony,
Unto many things which are stranger unto each other than man and woman are. And who would perceive completely how strange man and woman are unto each other!
Voluptuousness but I will have railings round my thoughts and even round my words, that swine and enthusiasts may not break into my gardens !
Thirst of power the glowing scourge of the hardest in hardness of heart ; the horrid torture reserved for the very cruellest ; the gloomy flame of living pyre.
Thirst of power the malicious gadfly which is being set on the vainest peoples ; the scorner of all uncertain virtue ; that which rideth on every horse and on every pride.
Thirst of power the earthquake that breaketh, and
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