Ben De Bono

“man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord’s Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“At least, Sancho, I want, because it is necessary, I say I want you to see me naked and performing one or two dozen mad acts, which will take me less than half an hour, because if you have seen them with your own eyes, you can safely swear to any others you might wish to add, and I assure you that you will not recount as many as I intend to perform.” “For the love of God, Señor, don’t let me see your grace naked, for that will make me feel so bad I won’t be able to stop crying,”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote

“I am doing things … ,’ replied Raskolnikov, reluctantly and sternly. ‘Like what?’ ‘Work …’ ‘What work?’ ‘Thinking,’ he said seriously, after a pause.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“When Churchill was running for office for the first time, he went door to door to ask for votes. He knocked on the door of an irritable man who, when Churchill introduced himself, said, “Vote for you? Why, I’d rather vote for the devil!” “I understand,” answered Churchill. “But in case your friend is not running, may I count on your support?”
― Gretchen Rubin, Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill: A Brief Account of a Long Life