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| | Richard Strauss, Also Sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30 (1896) |
 | | Also sprach Zarathustra, which offers mankind "not the Joy of Life (for there is no such thing), but the Fullness of Life, in the joy of the senses, in the triumphant exuberance of vitality," is a work of the imagination. |
 | | It's true also that the seed of one element in Nazism can be traced in Nietzsche's radical rejection of the Christian ethosof mercy and compassion, and the exaltation of the meekin favor of a hard-edged, clear-eyed, ecstatically arrogant confrontation of the mysteries of the universe. |
 | | When Zarathustra was thirty years old, he left his home and the lake of his home, and went into the mountains. |
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