Can you imagine a writer in England influencing? Absolutely not. And in France? It used to be, but no more-absolutely not. France used to, at least, have writers as diplomats, but not any more.

Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.

One can't measure how a mood of confidence comes about.

Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.

In a democracy - even if it is a so-called democracy like our white-?litist one - the greatest veneration one can show the rule of law is to keep a watch on it, and to reserve the right to judge unjust laws and the subversion of the function of the law by the power of the state. That vigilance is the most important proof of respect for the law.

My answer is: Recognize yourself in others

Music has no limits of a life-span.