“This is for you, for your breath, whose absence would lessen a greater world.”
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“To enjoy life, we might have to stop thinking about what we will never be able to read and watch and say and do, and start to think of how to enjoy the world within our boundaries. To live on a human scale. To focus on the few things we can do, rather than the millions of things we can't. To not crave parallel lives. To find a smaller mathematics. To be a proud and singular one. An indivisible prime.”
― Notes on a Nervous Planet
― Notes on a Nervous Planet
“I have seen that man’s capacity for evil has no limit, just as man’s genius is not limited to reaching new heights in every human endeavor.”
― From a Name to a Number: A Holocaust Survivor's Autobiography
― From a Name to a Number: A Holocaust Survivor's Autobiography
“Wherever you are, at any moment, try and find something beautiful. A face, a line out of a poem, the clouds out of a window, some graffiti, a wind farm. Beauty cleans the mind.”
― Reasons to Stay Alive
― Reasons to Stay Alive
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