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“Sentimentality, the ostentatious parading of excessive and spurious emotion, is the mark of dishonesty...the wet eyes of the sentimentalist betray his aversion to experience, his fear of life, his arid heart; and it is always, therefore, the signal of secret and violent inhumanity, the mark of cruelty.”
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“Writing poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric.”
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“Do I dare
Disturb the universe?
In a minute there is time
For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.”
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Disturb the universe?
In a minute there is time
For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.”
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“There is no document of civilization that is not at the same time a document of barbarism.”
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“Why is God making me suffer so much? Just because I don't believe in him?”
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