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He talked about the party line the way Catholics talk about the Immaculate Conception
I often wonder if the bill is yet to be presented during our lifetime. If not, I must present it to myself.
Suddenly hope was a thing of the past. I was just one of the other people. I tried imitating the expression on their faces; we still had five days. Then one day; then no time at all. Then I became one of them and in a few hours I'd forgotten that one can look from solid houses with horror and pity at people trekking by.
It's really ridiculous to assume that people are improved by hearing someone tell the truth about them.
You're naïve, to say the least.
There are secrets that ravage you, others that make you stronger.
Between killing and dying there's a third way: live
The happy times of pristine thinking and open minds, always favorable for beginnings, belonged now to the past, and we knew it.
The real question is: How sturdy and solid is the floor our civilization stands on? How many lives with no prospects, shattered and senseless, can it bear the weight of before it cracks somewhere or other, splits at the joints?
What is past is not dead; it is not even past. We cut ourselves off from it; we pretend to be strangers.
A possession considered of little value up to now suddenly becomes precious to a person if another person desires it, don't you think?
I've known one thing for a long time: there's a role in the big machine even for someone who makes fun of it.
What do I actually mean when I say 'delusion'? I mean the absurdity of the claim that the excessive atomic armament of both sides creates a 'balance of terror' that reduces the danger of war; that in the long run it even offers a minimum of security ... Hence the cynical saying: He who strikes first will die second.
Much later I realized that a person's attitude to pain reveals more about his future than almost any other sign I know.
Autonomous people, nations, and systems can promote each other's welfare; they do not have to fight each other like those whose inner insecurity and immaturity continually demand the demarcation of limits and postures of intimidation.
I did not like the thing in me which he had been able to seduce.
I had gone back to being myself. But my self did not exist,
The most beautiful thing under the sun is being under the sun.
I asked Agamemnon plainly about Iphigenia; he wept. Not as one cries out of pain, but out of fear. Out of weakness.
