The pseudonym "Philo Vaihinger" has been abandoned. All posts have been and are written by me, Joseph Auclair.

Friday, October 9, 2015

Andre Gide's The Counterfeiters

Pauline.

In real life nothing is solved; everything continues.

We remain in our uncertainty; and we shall remain until the very end without knowing what to make of things.

In the mean time life goes on and on, the same as ever.

But the man of faith gets the last word, after two murders, one more shocking than the other.

La Perouse in grief over Boris.

The devil and God are one and the same; they work together.

We try to believe that everything bad in the world comes from the devil, but it's because we should never find strength to forgive God.

He plays with us like a cat tormenting a mouse.

And then afterwards he wants us to be grateful to him as well.

Grateful for what? for what?

Do you know the most horrible thing of all that he has done?

Sacrificed his own son to save us.

His son!

His son!

Cruelty! that's the principal attribute of God.

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