A nice war is a war where everybody who is heroic is a hero, and everybody more or less is a hero in a nice war. Now this war is not at all a nice war.

Supposing everyone lived at one time what would they say. They would observe that stringing string beans is universal.

Language as a real thing is not imitation either of sounds or colors or emotions it is an intellectual recreation and there is nopossible doubt about it and it is going to go on being that as long as humanity is anything.

I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.

It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.

What is music. A passion for colonies not a love of country.

For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.