“Every transformation demands as its precondition "the ending of a world"-the collapse of an old philosophy of life.”
― Man and His Symbols
― Man and His Symbols
“The dead can survive as part of the lives of those that still live.”
― Hiroshima Notes
― Hiroshima Notes
“Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?”
― Going Postal
― Going Postal
“Life is not an easy matter…. You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.”
― Diary in Exile, 1935
― Diary in Exile, 1935
“His soul sat up. It met me. Those kinds of souls always do - the best ones. The ones who rise up and say "I know who you are and I am ready. Not that I want to go, of course, but I will come." Those souls are always light because more of them have been put out. More of them have already found their way to other places.”
― The Book Thief
― The Book Thief
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