“I'd love to be a writer one day”
“I don't want to make a mistake and marry the wrong woman. I'd rather be alone.”
“Don’t hate anyone,” Beata said quietly. “It’s too much work. And it only poisons you.”
“and all the people who were”
“It’s a wonder I haven’t abandoned all my ideals. They seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.” —Anne Frank”
“Whoever saves one life, saves a world entire.” —Talmud”
“Nazis were raiding French homes, looking for Jewish children. The tragedy of the year before was that Jean Moulin, one of the famed”
“smiling. “Are you in the army?” she inquired. He”
“And even under extreme tension, which he had been under, too, he had been polite, considerate, respectful, and kind at all times.”
“the essence of prayer is not to think a lot, but to love a lot.”
“I fear that once you put weapons in men’s hands, they don’t let go of them easily.”
“But no man's a hero to himself.”
“He was so terrible that he was no longer terrible, only dehumanized.”
“Then came the march past the victims. The two men were no longer alive. Their tongues were hanging out,
swollen and bluish. But the third rope was still moving: the child, too light, was still breathing...
And so he remained for more than half an hour, lingering between life and death, writhing before our eyes.
And we were forced to look at him at close range. He was still alive when I passed him. His tongue was still
red, his eyes not yet extinguished.
Behind me, I heard the same man asking:
"For God's sake, where is God?"
And from within me, I heard a voice answer:
"Where He is? This is where--hanging here from this gallows..."
That night, the soup tasted of corpses.”
“There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.”
“You made your own jean shorts...with a butter knife?”
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