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“Suicide seemed to me the greatest kind of freedom, a release from everything, from a life that had been ruined a long time ago.”
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“We live in a world in which women are battered and are unable to flee from the men who beat them, although their door is theoretically standing wide open. One out of every four women becomes a victim of severe violence. One out of every two will be confronted by sexual harassment over her lifetime. These crimes are everywhere and can take place behind any front door in the country, every day, and barely elicit much more than a shrug of the shoulders and superficial dismay.”
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“people do not emphasize with victims and give them limitless sympathy, but can very quickly switch to aggression and rejection”
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“Our society needs criminals like Wolfgang Priklopil in order to give a face to the evil that lives within and to split it off from ... It needs the images of cellar dungeons so as not to have to see the many homes in which violence rears its conformist, bourgeois head. Society uses the victims of sensational cases such as mine in order to divest itself of the responsibility for the many nameless victims of daily crimes, victims nobody helps – even when they ask for help.”
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“That day wasn't the first time I had attempted suicide. Simply disappearing into the distant nothingness where there was no pain and no more feelings - back then I thought it an act of empowerment. Otherwise I had very little power to make any decisions about my life, my body, my actions. Taking my own life seemed my last trump card.”
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“And the victim must have been broken and must remain so, so that the externalization of evil is possible. The victim who refuses to assume this role contradicts society's simplistic view. Nobody wants to see it. People would have to take a look at themselves.”
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“Während ich mir mit Fernsehen und Radio die Illusion von Gesellschaft ins Verlies holte, konnte ich es beim Lesen gedanklich für Stunden verlassen.”
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“Questa società ha bisogno di criminali come Wolfgang Priklopil, per dare un volto al male che vi risiede e per scinderlo da se stessa. Ha bisogno delle immagini delle prigioni nelle cantine per non dover guardare alle tante case e ai giardini, dove la violenza mostra il suo volto conformista, piccolo borghese. Usa le vittime di casi spettacolari come il mio per non sentirsi responsabile delle tante vittime dei crimini di tutti i giorni che rimangono senza nome e che non vengono aiutate, neppure quando chiedono aiuto”
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“Ero dentro il mondo del dispotico re di cuori,dove le carte trasalivano ogni volta che risuonava la sua voce”
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“Aber man lebt nicht ewig in einem Alptraum. Der Mensch hat die Fähigkeit, selbst in den abnormalsten Situationen einen Anschein von Normalität zu schaffen, um sich nicht zu verlieren. Um zu überleben.”
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“Avevo innescato una bomba. La miccia bruciava e non c'era nessuna possibilità di spegnerla. Avevo scelto la vita.
Al rapitore non rimase che la morte.”
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Al rapitore non rimase che la morte.”
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“...victims of violent crime are not always believed...
[referring to victim testimony at serial killer and pedophile Marc Detroux's trial]”
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[referring to victim testimony at serial killer and pedophile Marc Detroux's trial]”
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“People love the victim only when they can feel superior to them.”
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“It is up to you whether social, intelligent and wonderful creatures are to be freed from their chains and cages where ruthless people keep them. The animals would, if they could, flee as I did, because a life in captivity is a life full of deprivation.”
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“Niets is alleen maar zwart of alleen maar wit. En niemand is alleen maar goed of alleen maar slecht. Dat gold ook voor mijn ontvoerder. Dat zijn uitspraken die men een slachtoffer van ontvoering niet graag hoort doen, omdat daarmee het vaste beeld van goed en kwaad wordt verstoord. Een beeld waar iedereen maar al te graag in gelooft om in een wereld vol grijstinten het houvast niet te verliezen.”
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“This overemphasis on outward appearances was not only an act of distancing ourselves from our environment, it was also my mother’s way of demonstrating how much she loved me.”
― 3,096 Days in Captivity
― 3,096 Days in Captivity
“Wandaden zoals mijn ontvoering bieden de zwart-witte basis voor de categorieën 'goed' en 'kwaad' waaraan de samenleving behoefte heeft. De dader moet wel een beest zijn, want als we dat geloven, zijn we zelf goed. Een misdrijf moet worden opgetuigd met sadomasochistische fantasieën en wilde orgieën, net zolang totdat het zo ver van ons af staat dat er geen enkel verband met ons eigen leven is.
En het slachtoffer moet gebroken zijn en dat ook blijven, anders is het kwaad niet meer op die manier op afstand te houden. Een slachtoffer dat weigert zich in die rol te schikken wordt een symbool van de tegenstellingen van de maatschappij. Die willen we niet zien, want dan zouden we gedwongen zijn over onszelf na te denken.”
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En het slachtoffer moet gebroken zijn en dat ook blijven, anders is het kwaad niet meer op die manier op afstand te houden. Een slachtoffer dat weigert zich in die rol te schikken wordt een symbool van de tegenstellingen van de maatschappij. Die willen we niet zien, want dan zouden we gedwongen zijn over onszelf na te denken.”
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“See ühiskond vajab Wolfgang Priklopili suguseid kurjategijaid, et anda nägu sellele kurjale, mis temas elab, ja see endast ise eraldada. Ta vaja pilte keldrikongidest, selleks et ei peaks nägema paljusid kortereid ja aedu, kus vägivald näitab oma kodanlikku palet. Ta kasutab minusuguseid kõmuliste juhtumite ohvreid selleks, et vabastada end vastututusest igapäevaseste kuritegude paljude nimetute ohvrite ees, keda ei aidata - isegi siis, kui nad abi paluvad.”
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“Inimesel on võime isegi kõige ebanormaalsemas olukorras näha näilist normaalsust, et iseennast mitte kaotada.”
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“Joonistamine on meetod tulla toime tundega, et kaotad mõistuse ja oled teiste melle vallas.”
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“As soon as I began to paint a more nuanced picture of the kidnapper, people rolled their eyes and looked away. It makes people uncomfortable whenever
categories of Good and Evil begin to topple, and they are confronted with the fact that personified Evil also had a human face. His dark side didn’t simply fall from the sky; nobody is born a monster. We are all shaped by our contact with the world, with other people, all of which makes us who we are. And therefore we bear the final responsibility for what happens in our families, in our environment.”
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categories of Good and Evil begin to topple, and they are confronted with the fact that personified Evil also had a human face. His dark side didn’t simply fall from the sky; nobody is born a monster. We are all shaped by our contact with the world, with other people, all of which makes us who we are. And therefore we bear the final responsibility for what happens in our families, in our environment.”
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“I want once more in my life some hapiness
And survive in the ecstasy of living
I want once more see a smile and a laughing for a while
I want once more the taste of someone's love”
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And survive in the ecstasy of living
I want once more see a smile and a laughing for a while
I want once more the taste of someone's love”
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“Con questo libro ho cercato di chiudere il capitolo, fino a oggi, più lungo e cupo della mia vita. Sono profondamente sollevata di esser riuscita a trovare le parole per esprimere tutto l’impronunciabile, tutte le contraddizioni. Vederle stampate davanti a me, mi aiuta a guardare avanti con fiducia. Perché ciò che ho vissuto, mi ha reso anche forte: sono sopravvissuta alla prigionia nella segreta, mi sono liberata da sola e non mi sono piegata. So che sono in grado di destreggiarmi anche nella vita in libertà. E questa libertà comincia adesso, quattro anni dopo il 23 agosto 2006. Solo adesso posso tirare una riga e dire veramente: sono libera.”
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“die Zeit unerbittlich voran. Als mein Vater endlich aufwachte und wir uns auf den Rückweg machten, war es schon dunkel. Ich saß schmollend auf der Rückbank und sagte kein Wort. Wir würden es nicht rechtzeitig schaffen, meine Mutter”
― 3096 Tage
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“Meno di ogni altra cosa mi fu perdonato che non condannassi il rapitore come l’opinione pubblica si aspettava. Non volevano sentirmi dire che non esiste un male assoluto, una netta distinzione tra bianco e nero. Sicuro, il rapitore mi aveva tolto la mia adolescenza, mi aveva imprigionato e torturato, e tuttavia negli anni decisivi tra il mio undicesimo e diciannovesimo anno di vita, era anche stato la mia unica figura di riferimento. Fuggendo, non mi ero soltanto liberata del mio aguzzino, ma avevo perso anche una persona che mi era stata inevitabilmente vicina. Ma, per quanto possa essere difficile da comprendere, non mi era concesso portare il lutto. Non appena cominciavo a tracciare un quadro diversificato del rapitore, la gente alzava gli occhi al cielo e volgeva lo sguardo altrove. Le persone si sentono spiacevolmente toccate quando le categorie di Bene e Male vacillano e loro devono confrontarsi con il fatto che anche la personificazione del Male ha sembianze umane. Il lato oscuro di un criminale non cade dal cielo, nessuno nasce mostro. Noi tutti diventiamo quello che siamo attraverso il contatto con il mondo, con altre persone. E così, in definitiva, siamo tutti responsabili di quello che succede nelle nostre famiglie, nel nostro ambiente. Confessarselo non è facile. E diventa molto più difficile, quando qualcuno mette davanti a un altro lo specchio che non è previsto per questo. Con le mie dichiarazioni ho toccato un punto dolente e tentando di scoprire l’essere umano dietro la facciata dell’aguzzino e del moralizzatore, ho suscitato incomprensione.”
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“Psychological trauma is an affliction of the powerless. At the moment of trauma, the victim is rendered helpless by overwhelming force. When the force is that of nature, we speak of disasters. When the force is that of other human beings, we speak of atrocities. Traumatic events overwhelm the ordinary systems of care that give people a sense of control, connection and meaning. —JUDITH HERMAN, TRAUMA AND RECOVERY”
― 3,096 Days in Captivity
― 3,096 Days in Captivity
“gab mir einen Kuss. »Ich hab dich lieb«, murmelte ich wie immer zum Abschied. Dann ging ich durch den”
― 3096 Tage
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“verbracht. Dort hatte er sich in einem kleinen Dorf nicht weit von der Grenze ein Wochenendhaus gekauft. Es war eine regelrechte Bruchbude gewesen, mit feuchten Mauern, von denen der Putz abbröckelte. Im Laufe der Jahre hatte er sie renoviert und mit schönen, alten Möbeln eingerichtet, so dass sie inzwischen fast wohnlich war. Trotzdem mochte ich die Ausflüge dorthin nicht besonders. Mein Vater hatte viele Freunde in Ungarn, mit denen”
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“The more they expected it, and the more they scolded and ridiculed me, the more they were proven right. It was a vicious circle that I could not find my way out of.”
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“Ich war ein Kind und allein, und es gab nur einen einzigen Menschen, der mich aus der beklemmenden Einsamkeit retten konnte: der, der mir diese Einsamkeit angetan hatte.”
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