"They preserve the casting pattern of the sculptures, the sticker, with which similar objects can always be created again, but my body, my face, my thoughts, my desires never appear again. Yet millions and thousands of millions of creatures are born, whose nose, eyes, forehead, face and mouth, in a few square centimeters, will have a nose, eyes, forehead, face and mouth like mine, and will have a soul like mine, but I, I will never return, no recognizable part of me will appear again in that innumerable, different creation, who are approximately the same and yet infinitely different from each other... What should man cling to? Who should you turn to with your desperate cries? What can we believe? All religions are stupid, with their childish morals and terribly stupid egoistic promises. Only death is certain.
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They preserve the casting pattern of the sculptures, the sticker, with which similar objects can always be created again, but my body, my face, my thoughts, my desires never appear again. Yet millions and thousands of millions of creatures are born, whose nose, eyes, forehead, face and mouth, in a few square centimeters, will have a nose, eyes, forehead, face and mouth like mine, and will have a soul like mine, but I, I will never return, no recognizable part of me will appear again in that innumerable, different creation, who are approximately the same and yet infinitely different from each other... What should man cling to? Who should you turn to with your desperate cries? What can we believe? All religions are stupid, with their childish morals and terribly stupid egoistic promises. Only death is certain.
""Megőrzik a szobrok öntőmintáját, a matricát, amivel mindig újra lehet hasonló tárgyakat alkotni, de az én testem, az én arcom, az én gondolataim, az én vágyaim soha nem jelennek meg újra. Pedig millió és ezermillió teremtés születik meg, akinek néhány négyzetcentiméteren orra, szeme, homloka, arca és szája lesz, mint nekem, és lesz lelke is, mint nekem, de én, én nem térek vissza soha, az énemnek egyetlen felismerhető része sem jelenik meg újra abban a megszámlálhatatlan, különböző teremtésben, akik körülbelül egyformák, és mégis végtelenül eltérnek egymástól... Mibe kapaszkodjék az ember? Kihez forduljon kétségbeesett kiáltásaival? Miben hihetünk? Minden vallás ostoba, gyermekes moráljával és szörnyen ostoba egoista ígéretével. Egyedül a halál bizonyos."