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22 THUS SPAKE ZARATHUSTRA, I
Having so said Zarathustra thought of the words of the saint in the forest and sighing he thus spake unto his heart :
"Would I were wiser! Would I were wise from the root like my serpent!
But I ask impossibilities. I ask my pride to be always the companion of my wisdom.
And when once my wisdom leaveth me : alas ! it liketh to fly away ! Would that my pride would then fly with my folly ! "
Thus began Zarathustra' s down-going.
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