Herman Melville: BILLY BUDD Here ends a story not unwarranted by what sometimes happens in this incomprehensible world of ours-innocence and infamy, spiritual depravity and fair repute.
Friedrich Nietzsche: THE ANTICHRIST "The words to the malefactor on the cross contain the whole evangel. 'That was truly a godlike man, "a child of God", ' says the malefactor. 'If you feel that' — replies the Redeemer — ' then you are in Paradise, then you, too, are a child of God.' "