he's incapable of suffering for a long time, or being happy for a long time. Which means that he's incapable of anything really worth while.

In Italian museums are sometimes found little painted screens that the priest used to hold in front of the face of condemned men to hide the scaffold from them.

Slave camps under the flag of freedom, massacres justified by philanthropy or the taste of the superhuman, cripple judgment. On the day when crime puts on the apparel of innocence, through a curious reversal peculiar to our age, it is innocence that is called on to justify itself. The purpose of this essay is to accept and study that strange challenge.

For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment's human suffering

All I know of morality I learned from football

He was expressing his certainty that my appeal would be granted, but I was carrying the burden of a sin from which I had to free myself. According to him, human justice was nothing and divine justice was everything. I pointed out it was the former that had condemned me.

Who taught you all this, doctor?" The reply came promptly: "Suffering.