One Recognizes One's Course By Discovering The

God Put Self-pity By The Side Of Despair Like The Cure By The Side Of The Disease.

Knowing What [christ] Knew , Knowing All About Mankind--ah! Who Would Have Thought That The Crime Is Not So Much To Make Others Die, But To Die Oneself--confronted Day And Night With His Innocent Crime, It Became Too Difficult To Go On. It Was Better To Get It Over With, To Not Defend Himself, To Die, In Order Not To Be The Only One To Have Survived, And To Go Elsewhere, Where, Perhaps, He Would Be Supported.

Where Would His Torture Be, Indeed, If At Every Step The Hope Of Succeeding Upheld Him?

Absolute Virtue Is Impossible And The Republic Of Forgiveness Leads, With Implacable Logic, To The Republic Of The Guillotine.

In Order To Understand The World, One Has To Turn Away From It On Occasion.