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“It might have been an idea to ask this question, in seeking to shed light on the matter, and it might then have become clear that what happened to them was simply, in the end, the outcome of a long process or a long story that had nothing to do with me. I was just the last link in the chain, when it was almost too late.”
Vincent Delecroix, Small Boat

“Also, I have to do it with the means available, and that’s something we might talk about, the means available, or rather the lack of means available for carrying out these missions,”
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“...the air we breathe in is another’s dying breath.”
Vincent Delecroix, Small Boat

“But since lack of empathy was an expression that the investigator had also used a few minutes earlier in connection with my way of recounting the facts, I reminded her of what I had said initially, namely that empathy is expressly discouraged and it isn’t hard to understand why. Either you save, or you sympathise.”
Vincent Delecroix, Small Boat

“I know people would have liked me to say: You’re not going to die, I’ll save you. And not because I would have actually saved them, done my job, done the necessary, sent rescue. Not because I’d done what you’re meant to do. They wanted me to have said it, at least to have said it, just to have said the words. That was what the investigator was waiting for anxiously, for everyone to hear, to hear their own voice in mine in these recordings. The voice of each of us saying I will save you. Each one in my place. The voice of the whole of humanity reassured to hear itself saying, uttering the words: I will save you; you will not die – not actually saving, no one cares about that, not acting, not even helping. But at least saying it, because to fail to say those words is to be less than human. In the end, whether they drowned or not didn’t matter; what mattered were my words. What mattered was not that they were saved; it was that I should be saved, and the whole world with me, through these words. Saved by my own words, not condemned by them.”
Vincent Delecroix, Small Boat

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