For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment's human suffering.
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Zum Autor"...He said firmly, 'God can help you. All the men I’ve seen in your position turned to Him in their time of trouble.' 'Obviously,' I replied, 'they were at liberty to do so, if they felt like it.' I, however, didn’t want to be helped, and I hadn’t time to work up interest for something that didn’t interest me."
"How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing."
"In the age of ideologies, we must make up our minds about murder. If murder has rational foundations, then our period and we ourselves have significance. If it has no such foundations, then we are plunged into madness there is no way out except to find some significance or to desist."
"There is something divine in mindless beauty."
"Existence is illusory and it is eternal."
"People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves."