You are a sensible man, but you seem to be playing chess, and that by taking one figure after another the game is won.

The important thing, Werner, is that we ourselves are ready to die.

Do you understand?
What do those people think?
That there is nothing more terrible than death.

They themselves have invented Death, they are themselves afraid of it, and they try to frighten us with it.
I should like to do this--I should like to go out alone before a whole regiment of soldiers and fire upon them with a revolver.

It would not matter that I would be alone, while they would be thousands, or that I might not kill any of them.