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‘’ The friends whom we have lost do not rest in the earth, they are buried in our hearts, and that is how God wanted it, so that we should always be in their company. ”

I cannot throw you out of the window for another three weeks, that is to say, twenty-four days, and you will only have the right to assault me at that time.
It is now August the twenty-ninth, so on the twenty-first of September...

my kingdom is as great as the world. I am a cosmopolitan. No country can claim to be my birthplace. I adopt every custom, I speak every tongue. In this way, you see, being of no country, asking for the protection of no government and acknowledging no man as my brother, I am not restrained or hampered by a single one of the scruples that tie the hands of the powerful or the obstacles that block the path of the weak.

But man, man whom God made in His image, man whom God gave this first, this sole, this supreme law, that he should love his neighbour, man to whom God gave a voice to express his thoughts-what is man’s first cry when he learns that his neighbour is saved? A curse.

“And now, farewell, goodness, humanity, gratitude… Farewell all those feelings that nourish and illuminate the heart! I have taken the place of Providence to reward the good; now let the avenging God make way for me to punish the wrongdoer!”