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Franz Kafka
“it is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary.' 'A melancholy conclusion,' said K. 'It turns lying into a universal principle.”
Franz Kafka, The Trial

Antony Beevor
“This armchair strategist never possessed the qualities for true generalship, because he ignored practical problems.”
Antony Beevor, Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege: 1942-1943

Fyodor Dostoevsky
“I used to analyze myself down to the last thread, used to compare myself with others, recalled all the smallest glances, smiles and words of those to whom I’d tried to be frank, interpreted everything in a bad light, laughed viciously at my attempts ‘to be like the rest’ –and suddenly, in the midst of my laughing, I’d give way to sadness, fall into ludicrous despondency and once again start the whole process all over again – in short, I went round and round like a squirrel on a wheel.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

Antony Beevor
“German soldiers made use of Stalingrad orphans themselves. Daily tasks, such as filling water-bottles, were dangerous when Russian snipers lay in wait for any movement. So, for the promise of a crust of bread, they would get Russian boys and girls to take their water-bottles down to the Volga’s edge to fill them. When the Soviet side realized what was happening, Red Army soldiers shot children on such missions.”
Antony Beevor, Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege: 1942-1943

Franz Kafka
“The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.”
Franz Kafka, The Trial

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