If he fell, it was damnation for his soul--all were agreed as to this.
Now he had everything to make life happy ... but he could not go on living, he could not; oh, damnation!
Damnation seize the proud insolent harlot! the devil take me if I don't love her more than I ever loved a woman!"
For here, where the worth or worthlessness of an existence, where salvation or damnation are in question, the dead conceptions of philosophy do not decide the matter, but the inmost nature of man himself, the Daemon that guides him and that has not chosen him, but been chosen by him, as Plato would say; his intelligible character, as Kant expresses himself.