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“It was easier to accept what could not be changed than to risk everything and seek out the unknown.”
― Blake Crouch, Pines

“I had to bear witness in order to protect the future, bear witness in order to overcome the amnesia of my contemporaries.”
― Pierre Seel, I, Pierre Seel, Deported Homosexual: A Memoir of Nazi Terror

“He had been one of the officials who kept the illegal list of homosexuals in that region with the same good conscience as when he ticketed store owners for neglecting dog turds on their sidewalks.”
― Pierre Seel, I, Pierre Seel, Deported Homosexual: A Memoir of Nazi Terror

“He would go east and fight the emperor’s wars, carrying out the bloody business of larger countries eating up the littler ones. It wasn’t a matter of theory in a tiny office in the emperor’s palace. It was the work of their lives and the end of many of them.”
― Megan Whalen Turner, Thick as Thieves