“My heart grew sombre with grief, and wherever I looked I saw only death. My own country…”

“The evil in me was foul, but I loved it. I loved my own perdition and my own faults, not…”

“If babies are innocent, it is not for lack of will to do harm, but for lack of strength.”

“No one can lose you, my God, unless he forsakes you. And if he forsakes you, where is he…”