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“Do you know what the most secret stubbornly-defended part of our identity is? It’s the private concessions we make to our cowardice.”
― The Tree House
― The Tree House
“In time we often become one with those we once failed to understand.”
― M Train: A Memoir
― M Train: A Memoir
“Kindness is probably the most underrated human quality. We tend to dismiss it when we come across it and seek out more exciting character traits. But kindness is often a refined form of courage. It brings light and warmth into the world. You should always value kindness when you find it.”
― In the Warsaw Ghetto
― In the Warsaw Ghetto
“The key to understanding every story is to find yourself in it.”
― In the Warsaw Ghetto
― In the Warsaw Ghetto
“We all fashion ourselves to the false world in which we live and in so doing become false ourselves. I saw this all the time during the occupation. How people could convince themselves that locking up and deporting Jews, including children, was a rational consequence of events. How the same people who shrugged off news of executions and deportations were beside themselves with rage when someone tried to jump a queue.”
― The Tree House
― The Tree House
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