History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.

'We live' writes Pursewarden somewhere 'lives based upon selected fictions. Our view of reality is conditioned by our position in space and time — not by our personalities as we like to think. Thus every interpretation oа reality is based upon a unique position. Two paces east or west and the whole picture is changed.

Poverty is a great cutter-off and riches a great shutter-off.

A diary is the last place to go if you wish to seek the truth about a person. Nobody dares to make the final confession to themselves on paper: or at least, not about love.

History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.

Of women, the most we can say, not being Frenchmen, is that they are burrowing animals.

Religion is simply art bastardized out of all recognition.