Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
If a person can build a fence around himself, he is bound to do it.
Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
As the old proverb says: "Well-fed horses don't rampage.
Mourn if you must, but don't stop fighting.
The next war... may well bury Western civilization forever.