"To history has been attributed the function to judge the past, to instruct ourselves for the advantage of the future. Such a lofty function the present work does not attempt. It aims merely to show how it actually took place."

"A terrible thing is intelligence. It tends to death as memory tends to stability. The living, the absolutely unstable, the absolutely individual, is strictly unintelligible. Logic tends to reduce ever…"

"Because he did not care about his country, Lenin was prepared to promise everybody whatever they wanted without giving much thought to the future. The peasants wanted private land for their communes? …"

"I managed to work two mornings on Eddy's portrait in the large painting 'Three Generations' and I could go on working each morning for 1 1/2 hour., so there is some progress .. ..they come now every m…"

":I want to impress on everyone that the bad times are over – they’re finished! Our mandate from the Prime Minister is to destroy the Axis forces in North Africa."