"when her husband is taken away, a woman turns to stone, into an automaton, into I don't know what, the frozen express…"

"How can I forget when our life together was cut short literally in midsentence? The words never said are like a lump …"

"Why were they all so eager for fame? Surely nothing was ever less worth thinking about. (p 427)"

"Now again we are not supposed to remember the past and think-let alone speak about it. (42: Last Letter)"

"Nationalism, like the ideas of Leo Tolstoi, is an attempt to stop the course of history. Everything leading to separa…"

"The man governed by license is prepared to destroy everything and everybody that stands in his way-himself first and …"

"I am now faced with a new task, and am not quite sure how to go about it. Earlier it was all so simple: my job was to…"

"People like myself were the lucky ones who had not gone to prison. Knowing what it was like to live in "freedom," I w…"

"It is true that "forced labor" is too mild a term for the camps of the twentieth century and that nobody in the world…"

"I am even now constantly tormented by the thought of those years of life we were not allowed to live. I am always won…"