As for Hitler, his professed religion unhesitatingly juxtaposed the God-Providence and Valhalla. Actually his god was an argument at a political meeting and a manner of reaching an impressive climax at the end of speeches.

If one could only say just once: 'this is clear', all would be saved

I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't.

Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.

The Byronic hero, incapable of love, or capable only of an impossible love, suffers endlessly. He is solitary, languid, his condition exhausts him. If he wants to feel alive, it must be in the terrible exaltation of a brief and destructive action.

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

And indeed it could be said that once the faintest stirring of hope became possible, the dominion of plague was ended.