“Rather would I succumb than disown this one thing; and verily, where there is succumbing and leaf-falling, lo, there doth Life sacrifice itself⁠—for power!

“That I have to be struggle, and becoming, and purpose, and cross-purpose⁠—ah, he who divineth my will, divineth well also on what crooked paths it hath to tread!

“Whatever I create, and however much I love it⁠—soon must I be adverse to it, and to my love: so willeth my will.

“And even thou, discerning one, art only a path and footstep of my will: verily, my Will to Power walketh even on the feet of thy Will to Truth!

“He certainly did not hit the truth who shot at it the formula: ‘Will to existence’: that will⁠—doth not exist!

“For what is not, cannot will; that, however, which is in existence⁠—how could it still strive for existence!