It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.
Jean Paul Sartre
If you are not already dead, forgive. Rancor is heavy, it is worldly; leave it on earth: die light.
light
Yes, Lord, you are innocence itself: how could you conceive of Nothingness, you who are plenitude? Your gaze is light and transforms all into light: how could you know the half-light in my heart?
innocence light
It is too early to love. We will buy the right to do so by shedding blood.
rights
We will not go to Heaven, Goetz, and even if we both entered it, we would not have eyes to see each other, nor hands to touch each other. Up there, God gets all the attention.. We can only love on this earth and against God.
All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.
principles failure action
Lord, you have cursed Cain and Cain's children: thy will be done. You have allowed men's hearts to be corrupted, that their intentions be rotten, that their actions putrefy and stink: thy will be done.
men action
The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best.
work
One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day.
As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.
men
Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.
The painful secret of gods and kings is that men are free, Aegistheus. You know it and they do not.
Your entire universe will not be enough to make me guilty. You are the king of the Gods, Jupiter, the king of the stones and of the stars, the king of the waves of the sea. But you are not the king of men.
I have nothing but contempt for you idiotic chosen ones who have the heart to rejoice when there are the damned in Hell and the poor on earth; as for me, I am on the side of men and I will not leave it.
It is no longer possible to escape men. Farewell to the monsters, farewell to the saints. Farewell to pride. All that is left is men.
farewell men
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