“Life's accumulation is more discouraging than life itself, when stirred up.”
“What adds up to a life is nothing more than the accumulation of small daily moments.”
“Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?”
“It used to surprise me, the intensity with which I still remembered these distant memories. But when I entered my fifties...I understood their enduring clarity....In the end, what adds up to a life is nothing more than the accumulation of small daily moments.”
“Worshiping the Devil is no more insane than worshiping God...It is precisely at the moment when positivism is at its high-water mark that mysticism stirs into life and the follies of occultism begin.”
“Unorthodoxy threatens more than the life of a mere individual; it strikes at Society itself.”