Women whom Life has enlightened and whom it has disappointed! You I can
help.
I see two lovers hand in hand, kissing the tears away from each other's
eyes.
I can only rouse the wakeful. Nothing can be done with those who are
incapable of feeling noble indignation.
I have known two women prefer death to the infamy of conjugal life.
Open the newspapers!--hardly a line that is not a lie.
And poets and speakers flatter a people like that.
Christianity and Humanity have long wished for divorce. Now this is an
accomplished fact.
And the priests are honoured. They plume themselves on not having
certain vices, for which they are too weak.
I know that I shall be stoned, that every boy has his balderdash ready
against that to which the reflection of years and sleepless nights has
given birth. But do you think I am afraid of anyone?
Stupidity was always the bodyguard of Lies.
A people who have put up with the Oldenborgs for four hundred years and
made loyalty to them into a virtue!
They do not even understand that here there is no Antichrist but Common
Sense.
Abandoned by all, except Unhappiness and me.
When did God become Man? When Nature reached the point in its
development at which the first man made his appearance; when Nature
became man, then God did.
Pages:
296
297
298
299
300
301
302
303
304
305
306
307
308
309
310
311
312
313
314
315
316
317
318
319
320