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388 THUS SPAKE ZARATHUSTRA, IV
Even that man there loved himself even as he despised himself. A great lover is he, methinketh, and a great despiser.
Never yet have I found any one who did despise himself more deeply. Even that is height. Alas ! can he have been the higher man whose cry I heard ?
I love the great despisers. But man is a some- thing that must be surpassed."
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