Erich Maria Remarque. Arch (№ 12416)

- ... Lions kill antelopes, spiders - flies, foxes - chickens... But what of earthly creatures continually fighting and killing their own kind?
- The child's question. Well, of course, man is the crown of creation, who invented such words as love, kindness and compassion.
- Correctly. Which living beings are capable of suicide and commits it?
- Again, the man who coined the eternity of God and the resurrection.
"Fine," said Ravic. Now do you see what we are made of contradictions. So do you still not understand, why do we die?