
“While one may encounter many defeats, one must not be defeated.”
Source: An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
“While one may encounter many defeats, one must not be defeated.”
“Such a monster is not to be encountered in private life.”
Reflections on the Guillotine (1957)
Context: Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal’s deed, however calculated, can be compared. For there to be an equivalency, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal who had warned his victim of the date on which he would inflict a horrible death on him and who, from that moment onward, had confined him at his mercy for months. Such a monster is not to be encountered in private life.
Substance, Pressure, Beyond, Pulse in Matter, p. 208
Mystic Trudeau: The Fire and the Rose (2007)
Letter
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)
“Who needs make-believe monsters when there are so many real ones.”
Source: The Winter Rose
Source: Knowing Our Place in the Animal World, p. 75
“One must pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.”
Man büßt es theuer, unsterblich zu sein: man stirbt dafür mehrere Male bei Lebzeiten.
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Ecce Homo (1888)