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Thus spake Zarathustra. “Since I have known the body better”--said Zarathustra to one of his disciples--“the spirit hath only been to me symbolically spirit; and all the ‘imperishable’--that is also but a simile.”
“So have I heard thee say once before,” answered the disciple, “and then thou addedst: ‘But the poets lie too much.’ Why didst thou say that the poets lie too much?”