Albert Pierrepoint (1905–1992) English executioner
Executioner: Pierrepoint. Harrap 1974. p. 211.
“What is all that men have done and thought over thousands of years, compared with one moment of love. But in all Nature, too, it is what is nearest to perfection, what is most divinely beautiful!”
— Friedrich Hölderlin, book Hyperion
Hyperion
Context: What is all that men have done and thought over thousands of years, compared with one moment of love. But in all Nature, too, it is what is nearest to perfection, what is most divinely beautiful! There all stairs lead from the threshold of life. From there we come, to there we go.
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