أتعرف ما هو الجحيم؟ أتعرف أين هو الجحيم؟ - في منتصف السماء يقولون أو ربما في منتصف بطن عاقر. - Miguel de Unamuno

Memory is the basis of individual personality, just as tradition is the basis of the collective personality of a people. We live in memory and by memory, and our spiritual life is at bottom simply the effort of our memory to persist, to transform itself into hope, the effort of our past to transform itself into our future.

«¿Por qué el diminutivo es señal de cariño? — iba diciéndose Augusto camino de su casa — . ¿Es acaso que el amor achica la cosa amada?

"The bitterest sorrow that man can know is to aspire to do much and to achieve nothing"… so Herodotus relates that a Persian said to a Theban at a banquet (book ix., chap. xvi.). And it is true. With knowledge and desire we can embrace everything , or almost everything; with the will nothing, or almost nothing. And contemplation is not happiness — no! not if this contemplation implies impotence. And out of this collision between our knowledge and our power pity arises.