Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear. less than 1 minute read
When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence. less than 1 minute read
Death is easier than a wretched life and better never to have born than to live and fare badly. less than 1 minute read
Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people. less than 1 minute read
Not the torturer will scare me, nor the body’s final fall, nor the barrels of death’s rifles, nor the shadows on the wall, nor the night when to the ground the last dim star of pain, is hurled but the blind indifference of a merciless, unfeeling world. less than 1 minute read
I was passionate. I found something that I loved. I could be all alone in a big old skating rink and nobody could get near me and I didn’t have to talk to anybody because of my shyness. It was great. I was in my fantasy world. less than 1 minute read
