Sublime

Während jeder normale Mensch sofort die Flucht ergreifen würde, tun Feuerwehrmänner das exakte Gegenteil. Sie stürmen IN das brennende Gebäude hinein. Sie bekämpfen die Flammen. Sie gehen konsequent der Gefahr entgegen, egal, wie aussichtslos die Situation auch scheinen mag.

Apathy, the blunting of the emotions and the feeling that one could not care any more, were the symptoms arising during the second stage of the prisoner’s psychological reactions, and which eventually made him insensitive to daily and hourly beatings. By means of this insensibility the prisoner soon surrounded himself with a very necessary protecti

Vous êtes allemande ? – Oui. Son visage s'éclaira un peu. Il posa sa serviette sur le bar. – Eh bien, nous sommes presque des compatriotes. Je suis un peu allemand moi-même, par naturalisation, si on peut dire. J'ai été déporté pendant la guerre, et je suis resté deux ans dans différents camps. J'ai même failli y rester pour de bon. Je me suis atta

Whoever was still alive had reason for hope. Health, family, happiness, professional abilities, fortune, position in society—all these were things that could be achieved again or restored. After all, we still had all our bones intact. Whatever we had gone through could still be an asset to us in the future. And I quoted from Nietzsche: “Was mich ni

That formidable head is where my mother houses all her conscious memories. A complex stellar skein spun from infancy to old age. The images are manifold, encompassing her ancestors and her descendants. We all constellate in that brain of hers and we endure, shining on, because she sustains us. At her age, the exercise of memory is hard work. Summon

OUR FIRST ACT AS FREE MEN was to throw ourselves onto the provisions. That’s all we thought about. No thought of revenge, or of parents. Only of bread. And even when we were no longer hungry, not one of us thought of revenge. The next day, a few of the young men ran into Weimar to bring back some potatoes and clothes—and to sleep with girls. But st