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But it is not permissible that the authors of devastation should also be innocent. It is the innocence which constitutes the crime.
People always seem to band together in accordance to a principle that has nothing to do with love, a principle that releases them from personal responsibility.
People are not, for example, terribly anxious to be equal (equal, after all, to what and to whom?) but they love the idea of being superior.
Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.
