“Words can be like tiny doses of arsenic: they are swallowed unnoticed, appear to have no effect, and then after a little time the toxic reaction sets in after all.” — Victor Klemperer Copy Share Image
“Pity is such a shabby thing. I can torment myself with wanting to feel pity, and yet I don't succeed.” — Victor Klemperer Copy Share Image
“The dominant feeling is that this reign of terror can hardly last long, but that its fall will bury us.” — Victor Klemperer Copy Share Image
“Socialism has now become completely or almost completely identical with Bolshevism; that” — Victor Klemperer Copy Share Image
“March 18...[1945] Brief morning reflection arisen from great love. In fact, the main point after all is that for forty years we have so… — Victor Klemperer Copy Share Image
“Academics love the semicolon; their hankering after logic demands a division which is more emphatic than a comma, but not quite as absolute a… — Victor Klemperer Copy Share Image
“To me the Zionists, who want to go back to the Jewish state of A.D. 70 (destruction of Jerusalem by Titus) are just as… — Victor Klemperer Copy Share Image
“The banal perception - all the most profound perceptions are banal, at most one man finds a somewhat more original expression for it than… — Victor Klemperer Copy Share Image
“We had a friendly conversation, the man shook my hand, told me to keep my spirits up… The next day…He stared ahead as he… — Victor Klemperer Copy Share Image
“That the door fell shut, that the latch fell into place, did I know it with a nameless fear. At that second the eight… — Victor Klemperer Copy Share Image
“We are completely isolated. We have heard nothing from Annemarie Kohler, nothing from Johannes Kohler for weeks…A frightening silence.” — Victor Klemperer Copy Share Image
“I believe the pogroms of November '38 made less impression on the nation than cutting the bar of chocolate for Christmas.” — Victor Klemperer Copy Share Image
“Curious: At the very moment modern technology annuls all frontiers and distances (flying, wireless, television, economic interdependance), the most extreme nationalism is raging.” — Victor Klemperer Copy Share Image
![“March 18...[1945] Brief morning reflection arisen from great love. In fact, the main point after all is that for forty years we have so much loved one another and do love one another; in fact, I am not at all sure at all that all this is going to come to an end. For certain, nothingness--en tant…” quote by Victor Klemperer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f14/victor-klemperer-22570_angel-wings_march-18-1945-brief-morning-reflection-a_272071.jpg)
