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Dialogue with Death: The Journal of a Prisoner of the Fascists in the Spanish Civil War

Book by Arthur Koestler · 3 quotes · Men, Afraid Of Death, Arithmetic

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Dialogue with Death: The Journal of a Prisoner of the Fascists in the Spanish Civil War Quotes

“Most of us were not afraid of death, only of the act of dying; and there were times when we overcame even this fear. At such moments we were free-men without shadows, dismissed from the ranks of the mortal; it was the most complete experience of freedom that can be granted a man.”

“Death tripped down the corridor, changing step, struck out here and there, danced pirouettes; often I felt his breath on my face when he was miles away; often I fell asleep and dreamed while he stood leaning over my bed.”