Journey To The End Of The Night - pg. 20

The greatest defeat, in anything, is to forget, and above all to forget what it is that has smashed you, and to let yourself be smashed without ever realizing how thoroughly devilish men can be. When our time is up, we people mustn't bear malice, but neither must we forget: we must tell the whole thing, without altering one word, - everything that we have seen of man's viciousness; and then it will be over and time to go. That is enough of a job for a whole lifetime.