This reconciliation with Hitler reveals the profound moral perversity of a world that rests essentially on the nonexistence of return, for in this world everything is pardoned in advance and therefore everything cynically permitted.

Affectation of candour is common enough—one meets with it everywhere.

Hesitation of any kind is a sign of mental decay in the young, of physical weakness in the old.

If the dead were truly to come back, what would they come back knowing? Could we face them? We who allowed them to die?

Written By Joan Didion

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