"As it was, we all acted alone, we were caught alone, and every one of us will have to die alone. But that doesnâ€™t mean that we are alone."

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Source : Hans Fallada (2010). “Alone in Berlin”, p.412, Penguin UK

Hans Fallada

#Mean Quotes #Caught Quotes

“People aren't for hitting.”
“You, who were made by Love, made for love-- be still and know and watch love come down.”
“The first fundamental of successful city life: People must take a modicum of responsibility for each other even if they have no ties to each other. This is a lesson no one learns by being told. It is learned from the experience of having other people without ties of kinship or close friendship or formal responsibility to you take a modicum of responsibility for you.”

Source : Jane Jacobs (2016). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, p.82, Vintage
“To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.”
“In Africa, music is for everything, Music was originally used for community. That was what music was for.”
“The only thing worth globalizing is dissent.”

Source : Arundhati Roy (2016). “The End of Imagination”, p.193, Haymarket Books
“To each our own Hamlet.”
“TO preach a sermon or edit a newspaper were the two things in life which I always felt I could do with credit to myself and benefit to the world, if I only had the chance.”

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