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“There must be a grain of truth in any story, otherwise why sweat blood to tell it?”

“He had vanquished death, he had saved his daughter with a senseless act, he had triumphed over the monstrous extermination machine.”

“Day followed day; train followed train. In the overcrowded wagons, humanity lay dying. And humanity pretended to ignore it.”

“In this mortal world, to gain something is to lose a little something in the process, be it the life of a loved one, or one’s own.”

“Yes, the gods can do good when they reflect and choose to do so.”

“Then he set off at speed, though weaving a little, toward his hut, toward his home, his ax slung over his shoulder, suddenly terrified that he had bellowed his truth, the truth: the heartless have a heart. He was terrified and at the same time relieved and proud, proud to have roared it into the faces of the others, to have freed himself, to have suddenly ended a whole life of submission and silence.”

“The gods cannot think of everything, they have so much to do here below.”

“She feels herself become a mother, at once blissfully happy and terribly anxious. Fulfilled, yet overwhelmed.”