Denis Francis Hannigan

“ I felt myself a new man, a spirit growing out of the miserable bondage that is the lot of the human brute.
"No," I replied, emphatically. "For weeks before the end came, I had ceased to care for her. ”

“ Not at all," said Harold, and his smile grew warmer. "I often thought of suicide as a way out. Laura, you know, was a nuisance. She hated my ideas. She called them ‘nonsense’. She often told me I should become a stock broker instead of writing books that did not ‘pay’. Of course, she did not understand that I was indifferent to what men like you call success. I gradually came to the conclusion that the greatest curse is birth and that the true ideal is to cease to live. ”

“ Your worldly clergymen don’t come within a million miles of comprehending these things. God does not condemn human nature. He only condemns the distortion, the depravity, of human nature. My wife had an antipathy to my philosophy of life. ”