313. I Leave the Dead

But for me I leave the dead where nature leaves them, and whatever

flower of hope springs up in my heart I will cherish. But I cannot

believe that there is any being in this universe who has created a

soul for eternal pain, and I would rather that every God would destroy

himself, I would rather that we all should go back to the eternal chaos,

to the black and starless night, than that just one soul should suffer

eternal agony.

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