"Dachau has been my own lifelong point of no return. Between the moment when I walked through the gate of that prison, with its infamous motto, 'Arbeit Macht Frei,' and when I walked out at the end of a day that had no ordinary scale of hours, I was changed, and how I looked at the human condition, the world we live in, changed ... Years of war had taught me a great deal, but war was nothing like Dachau. Compared to Dachau, war was clean."

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Martha Gellhorn

#War Quotes #Years Quotes #Holocaust Quotes

“One of my theme songs is that if you can't do it in a test tube, don't do it.”
“The world goes on as before, and it turns out that nobody else seems to to notice the unbearable lightness of being.”

Source : "Money And Class In America: Notes And Observations On Our Civil Religion" by Lewis H. Lapham, (Chapter 7, Descent Into The Mirror, p. 181), 1989.
“All you have to do is buy cheap and sell dear, act with thrift and shrewdness, and be persistent.”
“This is the holy reasoning of love; it draws no license from grace, but rather feels the strong constraints of gratitude leading it to holiness.”
“It's hard to explain why I like Europe so much.”
“I think technique can be taught but I think the only way to learn to write is to read, and I see writing and reading as completely related. One almost couldn't exist without the other.”

Source : "The whole world in a community" by Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. January 5, 2002.
“When I choose a role it's either because I recognise the man, or that I'm very curious to know him. If I neither recognise nor know him, then it is better that I don't play him.”
“Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.”

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