“We stand in shit but let us not drown in it.”
― The Tattooist of Auschwitz
― The Tattooist of Auschwitz
“Why did this war have to happen at all? Because humanity had to be shown where its godlessness was taking it.”
― The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-45
― The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-45
“Nothing you can take from me was ever worth keeping.”
― The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
― The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
“They say that a person’s personality is the sum of their experiences. But that isn’t true, at least not entirely, because if our past was all that defined us, we’d never be able to put up with ourselves. We need to be allowed to convince ourselves that we’re more than the mistakes we made yesterday. That we are all of our next choices, too, all of our tomorrows.”
― Anxious People
― Anxious People
“This story is about a lot of things, but mostly about idiots. So it needs saying from the outset that it’s always very easy to declare that other people are idiots, but only if you forget how idiotically difficult being human is.”
― Anxious People
― Anxious People
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