FELIX
Why?
JULIAN
It's more sensible, don't you think, to destroy things one hardly cares to look at any more?
FELIX
But doesn't it make you rather sad to clean out your past like that?
JULIAN
Sad?... No, it's entirely too natural a process for that.
FELIX
I can't see it that way. Look here. To burn a letter, or a picture, or something of that kind, immediately after you have got it—that seems quite natural to me. But something at all worthy of being kept as a remembrance of some poignant joy or equally poignant sorrow would seem incapable of ever losing its significance again. And especially in the case of a life like yours, that has been so rich and so active.... It would seem to me that at times you must feel something like—awe in the face of your own past.