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“Talking is not enough; words don't clarify anything. I'll have to hit upon something, but what?”

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I tried to depict the human face of this history, I wanted to write a book that people would actually want to read.

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“Man, when reduced to nothing, or in other words a survivor, is not tragic but comic, because he has no fate.”

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“On one occasion she had spoken heatedly about the French Revolution, saying it had been little better than the Nazis. Her great-aunt responded by saying that she, being a Jew, had no right to talk about the French Revolution in that way, because had there been no French Revolution the Jews would still be living in ghettos today. After this…

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“As we pass one step, and as we recognize it as being behind us, the next one already rises up before us. By the time we learn everything, we slowly come to understand it. And while you come to understand everything gradually, you don't remain idle at any moment: you are already attending to your new business; you live, you…

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...I would like to live a little bit longer in this beautiful concentration camp.

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“I can see the young man on dizzily autumn mornings, the fog of which he inhaled just like the rapidly evaporating freedom.”

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Nonexistence. The society of the nonexistent. In the street yesterday a nonexistent person trod on my foot with his nonexistent foot.

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“The West in general should stand up more for its own values. It is not always worthwhile to compromise.”

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One cannot start a new life, you can only continue the old one.

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“Você sobrevive a sua falta de sensibilidade e compreende que o vazio do mundo é, de certa maneira, obra sua.”

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Of course, living is another way of killing oneself: its drawback is that it takes so horribly long.

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