Human tragedies are always simple when we reconsider them in retrospect.
Retrospect: the sweetener of life.
In retrospect we can only be thankful to all the mistakes that we made and to all the lessons that we learned from them!
I feel like I am either on the cusp of something great, or standing on the edge of my abyss, discovering something brand new, or uncovering somebody elses lost imagination.
One must judiciously retrospect not just his actions but also reactions of the other in order to arrive at a sensible conclusion. The primary fallacy is that you're assuming that the other is function...
Everything, in retrospect, is obvious. But if everything were obvious, authors of histories of financial folly would be rich . . .
I tell you this because books for young readers are so often written about that very moment: the moment of the fork. The moment the old man cannot return to.
The act of vividly recalling a patch of the past is something that I seem to have been performing with the utmost zest all my life, and I have reason to believe that this almost pathological keenness...