Maybe this world is another planet's Hell.
The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.
Thought is barred in this City of Dreadful Joy and conversation is unknown.
The more stitches, the less riches.
The sum of evil, Pascal remarked, would be much diminished if men could only learn to sit quietly in their rooms.
Ironically enough, the only people who can hold up indefinitely under the stress of modern war are psychotics. Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity.