Michael Kallan

“Where imaginary mole hills turn into hallucinatory mountains”
― Roland Huntford, The Last Place on Earth: Scott and Amundsen's Race to the South Pole

“...for a country is considered the more civilized the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak or a powerful one too powerful.”
― Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz

“Now arrogance and error would reap the usual dividends”
― Rick Atkinson, An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943

“Time worked unhurriedly, conscientiously. First the man was expelled from life, to reside instead in people's memories. Then he lost his right to residence in people's memories, sinking down into their subconscious minds and jumping out at someone only occasionally, like a jack-in-the-box, frightening them with the unexpectedness of his sudden, momentary appearances.”
― Vasily Grossman, Forever Flowing