- Location
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United States
- Gender
- Male
- Pronouns
- He/They
"And heaven shall ring with anthems o'er the deed they mean to do."
"Ich bin der Geist der stets verneint! / Und das mit Recht; denn alles was entsteht / Ist werth daß es zu Grunde geht; Drum besser wär's daß nichts entstünde. / So ist denn alles was ihr Sünde / Zerstörung, kurz das Böse nennt / Mein eigentliches Element."
"He who is not malign does not live serenely but with a peculiarly chaste hardness and intolerance. Lacking appropriate objects, his love can scarcely express itself except by hatred for the inappropriate, in which admittedly he comes to resemble what he hates. The bourgeois, however, [loves the] people as they are [because he hates] what they might be"
"Hope is reactionary: it cocoons actuality in the gossamer of the tolerable, dulling the thirst for change. Despair is revolutionary: it grinds the knife-edge of the intolerable against the whetstone of actuality, sparking the will to change"
"But if there be in glory aught of good / It may by means far different be attain'd / Without ambition, war, or violence; / By deeds of peace, by wisdom eminent / By patience, temperance"