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“You don’t know with what paradise I would’ve surrounded you. The paradise was in my soul; I would have planted it all around you! Well, you wouldn’t have loved me — so be it, what of it?”

“I do not wish and cannot believe that evil is mankind’s normal state.”

“Alas, I have always loved sorrow and grief, but only for myself, for myself, but for them I wept, pitying them. I held out my hands to them, in despair, accusing, cursing and despising myself.”

“Like a nasty trichina, like an atom of the plague infecting entire nations, I infected with myself this earth that until my appearance had been happy and without sin. They learned how to lie and they grew to love lies and came to know the beauty of lies.”