This section contains 566 words (approx. 2 pages at 400 words per page) |
"There were still napve prisoners among us who asked, to the amusement of the more seasoned ones who were there as helpers, if they could not keep a wedding ring, a medal or a good luck piece. No one could yet grasp the fact that everything would be taken away." Page 32
"At that moment I saw the plain truth and did what marked the culminating point of the first phase of my psychological reaction: I struck out my whole former life." Page 33
"An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior." Page 38
"I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world still may know bliss, be it only for a brief moment, in the contemplation of his beloved. In a position of utter desolation, when man cannot express himself in a positive action, when his only achievement may consist in enduring his sufferings in...
This section contains 566 words (approx. 2 pages at 400 words per page) |