The Poetry of Sacrifice

“We have thought for a long time that fascism was a kind of poetry, the poetry of the twentieth century. I tell myself that it cannot die. Little children who will be boys of twenty later will marvel to learn of the existence of this exaltation of millions of men, the youth camps, the glory of the past, parades, cathedrals of light, heroes struck down in combat, Jose Antonio… I shall never forget the radiance of the fascism of my youth.”

-Robert Brasillach