“Increasingly, the mathematics will demand the courage to face its implications.”
“... love and fear increase together with a precision almost mathematical: the greater the love is then the greater the fear is.”
“Apparently alcohol increases charm and courage by at least ten points.”
“The implication of this is that the mind’s possibilities are limited by its concept of its potential.”
“Like love, mourning affects the world—and the worldly—with unreality, with importunity. I resist the world, I suffer from what it demands of me, from its demands. The world increases my sadness, my dryness, my confusion, my irritation, etc. The world depresses me.”
“History, despite its wrenching pain cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage need not be lived again.”