We are all born equally far from the sun.

I did no know everything there was to know about myself, and knew that I did not know it.

So the more things remain the same, the more they change after all.

I never killed anybody and I never developed an intense level of hatred for the enemy. Because my war ended before I ever put on a uniform; I was on active duty all my time at school; I killed my enemy there.

Everyone has a moment in history which belongs particularly to him.

Peace is indivisible, and the surrounding world confusion found no reflection inside me.

Exeter was, I suspect, more crucial in my life than in the lives of most members of my class, and conceivably, than in the lives of almost anyone else who ever attended the school.