“ The slightest enthusiasm costs more than a crime.
Since we remember clearly only our ordeals, it is ultimately the sick, the persecuted, the victims in every realm who will have lived to the best advantage. The others—the lucky ones—have a life, of course, but not the memory of a life.
What a bore, someone who doesn’t deign to make an impression. ”
 Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born (1973). copy citation