That was the tragedy. Not that one man had the courage to be evil. But that millions had not the courage to be good. - John Fowles

You may wonder how I had not seen it before. I believe I had. But to see something is not the same as to acknowledge it.

Utram bibis?Aquam an undam?

I hated myself. I had created nothing, I belonged to nothingness, to the néant, and it seemed to me that my own death was the only thing that I could create; and still, even then, I thought it might accuse everyone who had ever known me. It would validate all my cynicism, it would prove all my solitary selfishness; it would stand, and be remembered, as a final dark victory.