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“You have ordinary moments and ordinary moments and more ordinary moments, and then, suddenly, there is something monumental right there. You have past and future colliding in the present, your own personal Big Bang, and nothing will ever be the same.”
― Stay
― Stay
“It seemed to me the discipline of education was effective only during peace time when there was law and order. Character cannot be improved by education. It reveals itself when there are no police to maintain order. Education is a veneer, a plating.”
― Hiroshima Diary: The Journal of a Japanese Physician, August 6-September 30, 1945
― Hiroshima Diary: The Journal of a Japanese Physician, August 6-September 30, 1945
“One might have complained about the soot and ashes or about the pipes and curtain rods that hung crazily from the ceiling, but patients never lived in a hospital ward so nearly free of bacteria as this one that was sterilized by fire.”
― Hiroshima Diary: The Journal of a Japanese Physician, August 6-September 30, 1945
― Hiroshima Diary: The Journal of a Japanese Physician, August 6-September 30, 1945
“What the diary does not reveal, for it stops too soon, is the appalling fact that from late 1945 until 1952 Japanese medical researchers were prohibited by U.S. occupation authorities from publishing scientific articles on the effects of the atomic bombs.”
― Hiroshima Diary: The Journal of a Japanese Physician, August 6-September 30, 1945
― Hiroshima Diary: The Journal of a Japanese Physician, August 6-September 30, 1945
“You are all the colors in one, at full brightness.”
― All the Bright Places
― All the Bright Places
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