Bernard Edelman

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Average rating: 4.3 · 1,186 ratings · 92 reviews · 38 distinct worksSimilar authors
Dear America: Letters Home ...

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Centenarians: The Story of ...

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A Legalização da Classe Ope...

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Ownership of the image: Ele...

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Nietzsche, un continent perdu

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Le sacre de l'auteur

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La propriété littéraire et ...

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Le Droit saisi par la photo...

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Sade, le desir et le droit

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“They tell me the letters I write to you and leave here at this memorial are waking others up to the fact that there is still much pain left, after all these years, from the Vietnam War. But this I know. I would rather to have had you for 21 years, and all the pain that goes with losing you, than never to have had you at all.”
Bernard Edelman, Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam

“Kim iyileşmeye tahammül edecek güce sahip?

Kesinlikle kitleler değil, kesinlikle zayıflar ve dışlanmışlar değil. Hiçlik istencini istedi aslında onlar, ondan besleniyorlar, çünkü yaşamları için gerekli istenç bu. Eğer bu hastalıktan kurtulup iyileşselerdi, mutlaka bundan ölürlerdi de. Onlardan ”üstün bir birlik”, ”kolektif bir varlık” oluşturdukları yönündeki inancı kaldırın; yalnızlık, adanmışlık, vatan, kamu yararı yanılsamalarını kaldırın onlardan, sürücül içgüdüyü sökün, onları evrenin geçici olduğuna, sonunun olmadığına, karmaşık ve anlaşılmaz bir dünyada yaşadığımıza ikna edin, parçalanırlar. Halkın bireysel özgürlük gücü yok; projesiz, programsız, ortak kadersiz, güvensiz, mutluluk vaatleri olmaksızın yaşayamıyorlar. Bunlar olmadan anarşi, terör ve kendini yokediş içinde soluyorlar. Afyona ihtiyaçları var -dine, paraya, çalışmaya, ulusal gurura-; afyonu kaldırdığınızda o hiçlik içinde çözüleceklerdir; sürünün birliğini kırdığınızda, her hayvan kendi köşesinde ölmeye gidecektir.”
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“The portrait that emerges from these letters is of man ennobled through sacrifice, not by unthinking patriotism or some mystical warrior ethic but by walking through hell with people who depend on him, and on whom he depends in return, living for another day when he has to do it again, for such are the orders of the country he loves.”
Bernard Edelman, Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam

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