Nicias, do you think you can erase with good deeds the wrongs you committed against your mother? What good deed will ever reach he...r? Her soul is a scorching noon time, without a single breath of a breeze, nothing moves, nothing changes, nothing lives there; a great emaciated sun, an immobile sun eternally consumes her.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is for the sake of order that I seduced Clytemnestra, for the sake of order that I killed my king. I wanted for order to rule a...nd that it rule through me. I have lived without desire, without love, without hope: I made order. Oh! terrible and divine passion!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Commoners are weightless. But he was a royal bon vivant who, no matter what, always weighed 125 kilos. I would be very surprised i...f he didn't have a few pounds left.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am responsible for everything ... except for my very responsibility, for I am not the foundation of my being. Therefore everythi...ng takes place as if I were compelled to be responsible. I am abandoned in the world ... in the sense that I find myself suddenly alone and without help, engaged in a world for which I bear the whole responsibility without being able, whatever I do, to tear myself away from this responsibility for an instant.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But [your crime] will be there, one hundred times denied, always there, dragging itself behind you. Then you will finally know tha...t you have committed your life with one throw of the die, once and for all, and there is nothing you can do but tug our crime along until your death. Such is the law, just and unjust, of repentance. Then we will see what will become of your young pride.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They made me take cod liver oil: that is the height of luxury: a medicine to make you hungry while the others, in the street, woul...d have sold themselves for a beefsteak. I saw them passing my window with their signs: "Give me bread".LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »