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Letters to Milena

by Franz Kafka

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Sep 14, 2025 07:10AM

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The Happiest Man on Earth: The Beautiful Life of an Auschwitz Survivor by Eddie Jaku

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This is the most important thing I have ever learned: the greatest thing you will ever do is be loved by another person. I cannot emphasise this enough, especially to young people. Without friendship, a human being is lost. A friend is ...more

Alyson’s Quotes

“Where pride and stupidity unite there can be no dissimulation worthy notice,”
― Jane Austen, Lady Susan

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“The practice of lying is concerned with attempting to overlay a thin paper substitute atop the world that exists in order that it seem to suit your purposes. But the Swallow Man didn't need the world to suit him. He could make himself suit whatever world it pleased him to agree existed.”
― Gavriel Savit, Anna and the Swallow Man

tags: anna-and-the-swallow-man, historical-ya, survival, world-war-ii

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“Geeks are smart and talented and passionate. I don’t think that’s a bad thing.”
― Sandhya Menon, From Twinkle, with Love

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“It's their failure, my little Anna, not yours. Men who try to understand the world without the help of children are like men who try to bake bread without the help of yeast.”
― Gavriel Savit

tags: 2016-book-releases, anna-and-the-swallow-man, fiction, friendship, gavriel-savit, historical-fiction, knopf-book-for-young-readers, survival, war, wisdom

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“Normally, her mind was like a busy beach - all day long she would run back and forth, leaving footprints, building small mounds and castles, writing out ideas and diagrams with her fingers in the sand, but when the night tide came in, she would close her eyes and allow each wave of rhythmic breath to wash in and out over her day's accumulation, and before long the beach would be clear and empty, and she would drift off to sleep.”
― Gavriel Savit

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