"The past hadn't been erased just because a new future had been handed it."

“...I am an outsider, a lesbian, a shikse. The Jewish community is not my community. But as a Jew--as a Jew in a Christian, anti-Semitic society--the Jewish community is, and will always remain, my community. Enemy and ally.”

Source : Irena Klepfisz (1990). “Dreams of an Insomniac: Jewish Feminist Essays, Speeches, and Diatribes”

“Go around the problem; get the system sufficiently resilient so that it is able to change, and it will change, It doesn't have to be forced. It's that forcing that you have to avoid at all costs.”

Source : Ida P. Rolf, Ph.D. (1990). “Rolfing and Physical Reality”, p.83, Inner Traditions / Bear & Co

“when guns are outlawed only the outlaws will have guns.”

“What Flaubert refers to as the “mélancholies du voyage” is like the sadness I feel as one season departs and another arrives.”

“The world is rather shot to pieces (end of World War II), 1945), but the spectators climb out of their caves and pretend to have again become normal and customary humans who ask each other's pardon instead of eating one another or sucking each other's blood. The entertaining folly of war evaporates, distinguished boredom sits down again on the dignified old overstuffed chairs.. ..May I report about myself that I have had a truly grotesque time, brim-full with work, Nazi persecutions, bombs, hunger, and again and again work - in spite of everything (using his bed sheets as canvas”

Source : "Max Beckmann". Book by Stephan Lackner, 1983.

“You won't realize the distance you've walked until you take a look around and realize how far you've been.”

“There's keen delight in what we have: The rattle of pebbles on the shore Under the receding wave.”

“The only thing left to do is forgive and forget. I want to forgive you and I want to forget you.”