"Before the war, and especially before the..." - Quote by George Orwell

“War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.”

“It was not the man's brain that was speaking; it was his larynx.”

“Even through the shut window pane, the world looked cold.”

“In her final years she would still recall the trip that, with the perverse lucidity of nostalgia, became more and more recent in her memory.”

“Death really did not matter to him but life did, and therefore the sensation he felt when they gave their decision was not a feeling of fear but of nostalgia.”

“Return to Shaoshan I regret the passing, the dying, of the vague dream: my native orchards thirty-two years ago. Yet red banners roused the serfs, who seized three-pronged lances when the warlords raised whips in their black hands. We were brave and sacrifice was easy and we asked the sun, the moon, to alter the sky. Now I see a thousand waves of beans and rice and am happy. In the evening haze heroes are coming home.”

“If the present tries to sit in judgment of the past, it will lose the future.”

“The more you are focused on time-past and future-the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is.”

“I go back to December, turn around and make it alright I go back to December, turn around and change my own mind I go back to December all the time”