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“Strange as it may seem, horror loses its power to frighten when repeated too often.”

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Michael Ende was a German author known for his fantasy literature. His most famous work, 'The NeverEnding Story', has been beloved by readers worldwide and has been translated into many languages. more

“If you stop to think about it, you’ll have to admit that all the stories in the world consist essentially of twenty-six letters. The letters are always the same, only the arrangement varies. From letters words are formed, from words sentences, from sentences chapters, and from chapters stories.”

Ifs Thinking World Stories Six Letters Twenties Sentences Chapters Arrangements Vary Never Ending Story

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“Wishes cannot be summoned up or kept away at will. They come from deeper within us than good or bad intentions. And they spring up unannounced.”

Wish Spring Intention Deeper Bad Intentions Never Ending Story

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“Nothing is lost. . .Everything is transformed.”

Lost Transformed Lost Everything

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“There were thousands and thousands of forms of joy in the world, but that all were essentially one and the same, namely, the joy of being able to love.”

World Able Form Joy Never Ending Story

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“Every real story is a never ending story.”

Real Stories Never Ending Real Story Never Ending Story

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“Sooner or later in life everyone discovers that perfect happiness is unrealizable, but there are few who pause to consider the antithesis: that perfect unhappiness is equally unattainable. The obstacles preventing the realization of both these extreme states are of the same nature: they derive from our human condition which is opposed to everything infinite.”

Source: Survival In Auschwitz

“Even in this place one can survive, and therefore one must want to survive, to tell the story, to bear witness; and that to survive we must force ourselves to save at least the skeleton, the scaffolding, the form of civilization. We are slaves, deprived of every right, exposed to every insult, condemned to certain death, but we still possess one power, and we must defend it with all our strength for it is the last — the power to refuse our consent.”

Want Stills Stories Lasts Form Certain Force Bears Civilization Slave Refuse Witness Insult Exposed Consent Deprived Skeletons Scaffolding Certain Death

Book:Survival In Auschwitz

Source: Survival In Auschwitz

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