"There's a gift in your lap and it's beautifully wrapped and it's not your birthday. You feel wonderful, you feel like somebody knows you're alive, you feel fear because it could be a bomb, because you think you're that important."

-- Aimee Bender

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“As we have come to understand the psychology of evil, we have realized that such transformations of human character are not as rare as we would like to believe. Historical inquiry and behavioral science have demonstrated the "banality of evil" -- that is, under certain conditions and social pressures, ordinary people can commit acts that would otherwise be unthinkable.”
“Kicking the football and the soccer ball is all the same, just a different shape, like an egg. It doesn't make any difference.”
“An admiral without ships, a hand without fingers, in service of a king without a throne. Is this a knight who comes before us, or the answer to a child's riddle?”
“The way I would describe a pictorial is that it is a picture that makes everybody say â€˜Aaaaah,â€™ with five vowels when they see it. It is something you would like to hang on the wall. The french word â€˜photogeniqueâ€™ defines it better than anything in English. It is a picture which must have quality, drama, and it must, in addition, be as good technically as you can possible make it.”
“Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they show us how to live and die.”
“I care about strangers when they're abstractions, but I feel almost nothing when they're literally in front of me.”
“I tried to commit suicide because I sacrificed everything for Hitler. And that man whom we sacrificed everything for left us all alone. If he had committed suicide four years before, it would have been all right.”

Source : "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, 2004.
“And once again I believe that nothing that's important really becomes lost. We just delude ourselves, thinking that we own the things, the moments and the others. Still with me are all the dead persons who I loved, all the friends who turned away, all the happy days that faded. I lost nothing but the illusion that everything could be mine forever.”

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