No excuses, ever, for anyone: that’s my principle from the beginning. I deny good intentions, decent mistakes, wrong steps and extenuating circumstances. With me, there is no benediction, no absolutions are handed out. We just do the sums, then: ‘It amounts to so much. You’re a pervert, a sex maniac, a congenital liar, a pederast, an artist, and so on.’ Like that. No frills. So, in philosophy as in politics, I’m in favour of any favour that denies innocence to Man and every practice that treats him as guilty. Dear fellow, in me you see an enlightened supporter of slavery.
