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“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.”
― Paul Valéry, Introduction à la méthode de Léonard de Vinci

“My hand feels touched as well as it touches; reality says this, and nothing more.”
― Paul Valéry, Selected Writings

“To see is to forget the name of the thing one sees.”
― Paul Valéry

“We were the unflinching prisoners of a grandiose make-believe, we who looked upon ourselves as heard-headed materialists. We dismissed the distress of today, the human wreckage scattered all about us, the terror and militarism prevailing in the country with the stereotyped belief that we were marching forward with great strides.”
― Jan Valtin, Out of the Night: The Memoir of Richard Julius Herman Krebs alias Jan Valtin

“Prisons are built to break men, and when men are broken society has consummated its revenge”
― Jan Valtin, Out of the Night: The Memoir of Richard Julius Herman Krebs alias Jan Valtin

“A man lives his life only when he is marching, i thought, when he keeps marching onwards at any price. When he stops marching onwards, he decays. The joy of life is the joy of the experience that comes from feeling one's own strength.”
― Jan Valtin, Out of the Night: The Memoir of Richard Julius Herman Krebs alias Jan Valtin

“Break the character and independence of your man and you will have an obedient trooper.”
― Jan Valtin, Out of the Night: The Memoir of Richard Julius Herman Krebs alias Jan Valtin

“I would not have shied away from an assignment to sail a canoe around Cape Horn or to take charge of the government of Afghanistan.”
― Jan Valtin, Out of the Night: The Memoir of Richard Julius Herman Krebs alias Jan Valtin

“Blut muss fliessen”
― Jan Valtin, Out of the Night: The Memoir of Richard Julius Herman Krebs alias Jan Valtin

“It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future.”
― Yogi Berra