The virtues we acquire, which develop slowly within us, are the invisible links that bind each one of our existences to the others—existences which the spirit alone remembers.
Honoré de Balzac
grudge
Plunge to the depths of your grief and if perchance half-forgotten sorrows have slept in your anguished heart awaken them with cruelly sweet delight.
Caroline Pichler
war
Why do people have memories? It would be easier to die—anything to stop remembering.
Vasily Grossman
enthusiasm
I felt, smelt, touched the most terrible possibilities within me, and heard the demons howl in my blood, the thousand devils with their spikes which madden the flesh.