Only the impossible lasts forever; with time, it is made accessible. - Djuna Barnes

...the people... they are church-broken, nation-broken — they drink and pray and piss in the one place. Every man has a house-broken heart except the great man. The people love their church and know it, as a dog knows where he was made to conform, and there he returns by his instinct.

Of course I think of the past and of Paris, what else is there to remember?

A strong sense of identity gives man an idea he can do no wrong; too little accomplishes the same.