Marquis de Sade

Dearest shadow,

I want to share a quote from a play i read for european literature last semester....and yes. it has the longest title of any text i've read in all my life.


enjoy.


"Every animal, plant, or man that dies adds to nature's compost heap, becomes the manure without which nothing can grow; nothing could be crafted. Death is simply part of a process. Every death, even the cruelest death, drowns in a total indifference of nature. Nature would watch, unmoved, if we destroyed the entire human race. I hate nature. Its passion is spectative, its unbreakable iceberg face that can bear everything, this goads us to greater and greater acts. But though I hate this goddess, I still see that the greatest acts in history have followed her laws.
-The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade


:)