The heart is able to bury deep and well what is urgently desires to forget. - Stefan Zweig

On the whole, more men had perhaps escaped into the war than from it.

Only ambition is fired by the coincidences of success and easy accomplishment but nothing is quite as splendidly uplifting to the heart as the defeat of a human being who battles against the invincible superiority of fate. This is always the most grandiose of all tragedies, one sometimes created by a dramatist but created thousands of times by life.

To grow old means to be rid of anxieties about the past.