"I'm not alive. People believe memories grow vague, are erased by time, since nothing endures against the passage of time. That's the difference; time does not pass over me, over us. It doesn't erase anything, doesn't undo it. I'm not a live. I died in Auschwitz but no one knows it."

-- Charlotte Delbo

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“No government dependent on a democratic vote could possibly agree in advance to the sacrifices which any adequate plan for European Union must involve. The people must be led slowly and unconsciously into the abandonment of their traditional economic defences, not asked.”
“God said to Gideon, I'll deliver you once I diminish you.”
“After all, if freedom of speech means anything, it means a willingness to stand and let people say things with which we disagree, and which do weary us considerably.”

Source : "Freedom of Speech" by Zechariah Chafee, Harcourt, Brace and Howe, (p. 366), 1920.
“No historian should be trusted implicitly.”
“Some people have a perverse talent; they're capable of shooting themselves in the foot and stabbing themselves in the back at the exact same time.”
“I knew that I was learning one of the most important lessons of my life: that instead of waiting for the perfect opportunity, I should work toward a realization that every opportunity is perfect.”
“Atheists think the devil is just a silly as God is.”
“This whole thing about winning and losing is muddy waters. But I can remember, as a young actor, just walking around this city and not being able to get arrested.”

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