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Chaim Potok
“Be discontented with the world. But be respectful at the same time.”
Chaim Potok, Davita's Harp

Philip Gourevitch
“You take a poor, ignorant population, and give them arms, and say, ‘It’s yours. Kill.’ They’ll obey. The peasants, who were paid or forced to kill, were looking up to people of higher socio-economic standing to see how to behave.”
Philip Gourevitch, We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families

Yarro Rai
“Dear daughter,
. . . . be ugly and eliminate those. Who judge you by your physical beauty!”
Yarro Rai, Light and Shadow

Thomas Mann
“Wrapped in his coat, a book in his lap, the traveler took his ease, the hours slipping by unnoticed.”
Thomas Mann, Death in Venice

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Is it not enough that we cannot make one another happy, must we also rob one another of the pleasures that any heart may permit itself now and then? And name me a person who in a bad mood will be decent enough to hide it, to bear it alone, without destroying the joy around him. Is it not rather an inner dissatisfaction with our own unworthiness, a dislike of ourselves that is always associated with envy aggravated by foolish conceit? We see people happy and not made happy by us, and that is unbearable.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther

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