Dimitra Nikoloù

“On the day I lost my passport I discovered, at the age of fifty-eight, that losing one’s native land implies more than parting with a circumscribed area of soil.”
― Stefan Zweig, The World of Yesterday

“It is remarkable that the persons we love most are those we can least describe.”
― Max Frisch

“All took leave from life in the manner which most suited them. Some praying, some deliberately drunk, others lustfully intoxicated for the last time. But the mothers stayed up to prepare the food for the journey with tender care, and washed their children and packed their luggage; and at dawn the barbed wire was full of children's washing hung out in the wind to dry. Nor did they forget the diapers, the toys, the cushions and the hundreds other small things which mothers remember and which children always need. Would you not do the same? If you and your child were going to die tomorrow, would you not give him to eat today?”
― Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz

“A person who does not concern himself with politics has already made the political choice he was so anxious to spare himself: he is serving the ruling party.”
― Max Frisch, Tagebuch 1946–1949