The function of memory is not only to preserve, but also to throw away. If you remembered everything from your entire life, you would be sick.
Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big.
The only truths that are useful are instruments to be thrown away.
In other words, although I don't like them, we do need noble-spirited souls.
The United States needed a civil war to unite properly.
That is a real attitude - to see everything as being meaningful, even the less important things, to prove something, even the greater problems of life.