“All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.”
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There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.
The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death.
We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets - we remember only.
In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.