Michel

“Life in a concentration camp tore open the human soul
and exposed its depths. Is it surprising that in those
depths we again found only human qualities which in
their very nature were a mixture of good and evil? The
rift dividing good from evil, which goes through all
human beings, reaches into the lowest depths and becomes
apparent even on the bottom of the abyss which is
laid open by the concentration camp.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them. Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around. Nothing can be more useful to a man than the determination not to be hurried.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“silence, simplicity and humility . . . the only proper state for the artist as for the human being,”
― Patrick White, The Vivisector

“Woe to him who found that the person whose memory alone had given him courage in camp did not exist any more! Woe to him who, when the day of his dreams finally came, found it so different from all he had longed for! Perhaps he boarded a trolley, traveled out to the home which he had seen for years in his mind,
and only in his mind, and pressed the bell, just as he has longed to do in thousands of dreams, only to find that the person who should open the door was not there, and would never be there again.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning