The Diary of a Madman
by Guy de Maupassant
He was dead--the head of a high tribunal, the upright magistrate who irreproachable life was a proverb in all the courts of France. Advocates, young counllors, judges had greeted him at sight of his large, thin, pale face lighted up by two sparkling deep-t eyes, bowing low in token of respect.
He had pasd his life in pursuing crime and in protecting the weak. Swindlers and murderers had no more redoubtable enemy, for he emed to read the most cret thoughts of their minds.
He was dead, now, at the age of eighty-two, honored by the homage and followed by the regrets of a whole people. Soldiers in red trours had escorted him to the tomb and men in white cravats had spoken words and shed tears that emed to be sincere beside his grave.
大学生入伍条件But here is the strange paper found by the dismayed notary in the desk where he had kept the records of great criminals! It was entitled:
WHY?
20th June, 1851. I have just left court. I have condemned Blondel to death! Now, why did this man kill his five children? Frequently one meets with people to whom the destruction of life is a pleasure. Yes, yes, it should be a pleasure, the greatest of all, perhaps, for is not killing the next thing to creating? To make and to destroy! The two words contain the history of the univer, all the history of worlds, all that is, all! Why is it not intoxicating to kill?momentoftruth
25th June. To think that a being is there who lives, who walks, who runs. A being? What is a being? That animated thing, that bears in it the principle of motion and a will ruling that motion. It is attached to nothing, this thing. Its feet do not belong to the ground. It is a grain of life that moves on the earth, and this grain of life, coming I know not whence, one can destroy at one's will. Then nothing--nothing more. It perishes, it is finished.
26th June. Why then is it a crime to kill? Yes, why? On the contrary, it is the law of nature. The mission of every being is to kill; he kills to live, and he kills to kill. The beast kills without ceasing, all day, every instant of his existence. Man kills without ceasing, to nourish himlf; but since he needs, besides, to kill for pleasure, he has invented hunting! The child kills the incts he finds, the little birds, all the little animals that come in his way. But this does not suffice for the irresistible need to massacre that is in us. It is not enough to kill beasts; we must kill man too. Long ago this need was satisfied by human sacrifices. Now the requirements of social life have made murder a crime. We condemn and punish the assassin! But as we cannot live without yielding to this natural and imperious instinct of death, we relieve ourlves, from time to time, by wars. Then a whole nation slaughters another nation. It is a feast of blood, a feast that maddens armies and that intoxicates civilians, women and children, who read, by lamplight at night, the feverish story of massacre.
憧憬是什么意思
candy boxOne might suppo that tho destined to accomplish the butcheries of men would be despid! No, they are loaded with honors. They are clad in gold and in resplendent garm
ents; they wear plumes on their heads and ornaments on their breasts, and they are given cross, rewards, titles of every kind. They are proud, respected, loved by women, cheered by the crowd, solely becau their mission is to shed human blood; They drag through the streets their instruments of death, that the pasr-by, clad in black, looks on with envy. For to kill is the great law t by nature in the heart of existence! There is nothing more beautiful and honorable than killing!
实行英文30th June中译韩. To kill is the law, becau nature loves eternal youth. She ems to cry in all her unconscious acts: "Quick! quick! quick!" The more she destroys, the more she renews herlf.
2d July. A human being--what is a human being? Through thought it is a reflection of all that is; through memory and science it is an abridged edition of the univer who history it reprents, a mirror of things and of nations, each human being becomes a microcosm in the macrocosm.
3d July. It must be a pleasure, unique and full of zest, to kill; to have there before one the
bec考试living, thinking being; to make therein a little hole, nothing but a little hole, to e that red thing flow which is the blood, which makes life; and to have before one only a heap of limp flesh, cold, inert, void of thought!
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5th Augustwiper是什么意思. I, who have pasd my life in judging, condemning, killing by the spoken word, killing by the guillotine tho who had killed by the knife, I, I, if I should do as all the assassins have done whom I have smitten, I--I--who would know it?
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