[34] Albrecht Ritschl: Geschichte des Pietismus, ii., Abt. i., Bonn, 1884, p. 251.
[35] Thou art the cause of my suffering, O non-existing God, for if Thou didst exist, then should I also really exist.
VII
LOVE, SUFFERING, PITY, AND PERSONALITY
CAIN: Let me, or happy or unhappy, learn
To anticipate my immortality.
LUCIFER: Thou didst before I came upon thee.
CAIN: How?
LUCIFER: By suffering.
BYRON: Cain, Act II., Scene I.
The most tragic thing in the world and in life, readers and brothers of mine, is love. Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion; love is consolation in desolation; it is the sole medicine against death, for it is death's brother.
Fratelli, a un tempo stesso, Amore e Morte
Ingeneró la sorte,
as Leopardi sang.