Civilization is a transient sickness.
Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us.
Happy people die whole, they are all dissolved in a moment, they have had what they wanted.
It is only a little planet, but how beautiful it is.
Justice and mercy
Are human dreams, they do not concern the birds nor the fish nor eternal God.
Are human dreams, they do not concern the birds nor the fish nor eternal God.
Know that however ugly the parts appear the whole remains beautiful.
Long live freedom and damn the ideologies.
Pleasure is the carrot dangled to lead the ass to market; or the precipice.
Poetry is not a civilizer, rather the reverse, for great poetry appeals to the most primitive instincts.
Still the mind smiles at its own rebellions.
The cold passion for truth hunts in no pack.
The tides are in our veins.
There is no reason for amazement: surely one always knew that cultures decay, and life's end is death.
This wild swan of a world is no hunter's game.
We might remember... not to fear death; it is the only way to be cleansed.
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