What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. – Henry Stanley Haskins, Meditations in Wall Street, 1940, originally published an
My father belongs to the generation that fought the war in the 1940s. When I was a kid my father told me stories – not so many, but it meant a lot to me. I wanted to know what happened then, to my fathers generation. Its a kind of inheritance, the memory of it. – Haruki Murakami