What if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness
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And say to you, "Everything unutterably small or great in this life will have to return to you,
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All in the same succession and sequence, even this spider and this moonlight between the trees, and even this moment and I myself - the eternal hourglass."
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Speck of dust!
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Speck of dust!
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Speck of dust!
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Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus?
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Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him..
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You would have answered him..
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You would have answered him:
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"You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine!"
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If this thought gained possession of you, it would change you,
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Or perhaps it would crush you;
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The question in each and everything,
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"Do you desire this once more, and innumerable times more?"
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The question in each and everything,
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"Do you desire this once more, and innumerable times more?"
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Would you lie upon your actions as the greatest weight!
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This life as you now live and have lived it before,
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You will live once again
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And there will be nothing,
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But every pain and joy,
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And every thought and sigh,
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And every pain and joy,
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And every thought and sigh!
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Or how well disposed would you become to yourself and to life to crave nothing more fervently than this ultimate eternal confirmation and seal?
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The question is..
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The question is..
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The question is..
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The greatest weight!
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The Greatest Weight
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Horse The Band |