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Anne of the Island (Anne of Green Gables, #3)

by L.M. Montgomery

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Jan 12, 2011 05:01PM

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Night World, No. 2 (Night World, #4-6)

by L.J. Smith

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“...and if he suffers, he must suffer for what he has done, not for what he has caused others to suffer.”
― Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

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“The Israeli court psychiatrist who examined Eichmann found him a “completely normal man, more normal, at any rate, than I am after examining him,” the implication being that the coexistence of normality and bottomless cruelty explodes our ordinary conceptions and present the true enigma of the trial.”
― Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

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“And just as you supported and carried out a policy of not wanting to share the earth with the Jewish people and the people of a number of other nations – as though you and your superiors had any right to determine who should and who should not inhabit the world – we find that no one, that is, no member of the human race, can be expected to want to share the earth with you. This is the reason, and the only reason, you must hang.”
― Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

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“In his] mind, there was no contradiction between "I will jump into my grave laughing," appropriate for the end of the war, and "I shall gladly hang myself in public as a warning example for all anti-Semites on this earth," which now, under vastly different circumstances, fulfilled exactly the same function of giving him a lift.”
― Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

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