This was all about a side piece, a girlfriend and it is my sister who ends up murdered. |
Those last three minutes were brutal and broke my heart. |
To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war. |
To shoot a man because one disagrees with his interpretation of Darwin or Hegel is a sinister tribute to the supremacy of ideas in human affairs -- but a tribute nevertheless. |
We know that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day's work at Auschwitz in the morning. |
Words that are saturated with lies or atrocity, do not easily resume life. |