I thank You Lord for creating the world beautiful and various and if this is Your seduction I am seduced for good and past all forgiveness

forgive me also that I didn't fight like Lord Byron for the happiness of captive peoples that I watched only risings of the moon and museums

I turn to history not for lessons but to confront my experience with the experience of others and to win for myself a sense of responsibility for the state of the human conscience.

Be courageous when the mind deceives you Be courageous In the final account only this is important

The dead have need of fairy tales too.

I thank You Lord for creating the world beautiful and various and if this is Your seduction I am seduced for good and past all forgiveness

I could write a treatise on the sudden transformation of life into archaeology