I must say to myself that I ruined myself, and that nobody great or small can be ruined except by his own hand. I am quite ready to say so. ... Terrible as was what the world did to me, what I did to myself was far more terrible still.
I must say... that I ruined myself: and that nobody, great or small, can be ruined except by his own hand.
Did not God Sometimes withhold in mercy what we ask, We should be ruined at our own request.
destruction is ultimately self-destruction.
I would like to explode, flow, crumble into dust, and my disintegration would be my masterpiece.
There is only one element that can break the Afrikaner, and that is the Afrikaner himself. It is when the Afrikaner, like a baboonshot in the stomach, pulls out his own intestines. We must guard against that.
The only thing which consoles for our miseries is diversion, and yet this is the greatest of our miseries. For it is this which principally hinders us from reflecting upon ourselves and which makes us imperceptibly ruin ourselves.
He dies twice who perishes by his own weapons.
In me didst thou exist-and, in my death, see by this image, which is thine own, how utterly thou hast murdered thyself.
