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Where I Lived, and What I Lived For

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“The Nazi and Soviet regimes turned people into numbers, some of which we can only estimate, some of which we can reconstruct with fair precision. It is for us as scholars to seek those numbers and to put them into perspective. It is for us as humanists to turn the numbers back into people. If we cannot do that, then Hitler and Stalin have shaped not only our world, but our humanity.”

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Book:Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
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“মানুষ বড় কাঁদছে, তুমি মানুষ হয়ে পাশে দাঁড়াও, মানুষই ফাঁদ পাতছে, তুমি পাখির মতো পাশে দাঁড়াও, মানুষ বড় একলা, তুমি তাহার পাশে এসে দাঁড়াও। তোমাকে সেই সকাল থেকে তোমার মতো মনে পড়ছে, সন্ধে হলে মনে পড়ছে, রাতের বেলা মনে পড়ছে। মানুষ বড় একলা, তুমি তাহার পাশে এসে দাঁড়াও, এসে দাঁড়াও, ভেসে দাঁড়াও এবং ভালোবেসে দাঁড়াও, মানুষ বড় কাঁদছে, তুমি মানুষ হয়ে পাশে দাঁড়াও।”

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Author:Shakti Chattopadhyay
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“Hm-m," he said. "Lookie, Ma. I been all day an' all night hidin' alone. Guess who I been thinkin' about? Casy! He talked a lot. Used ta bother me. But now I been thinkin' what he said, an' I can remember-all of it. Says one time he went out in the wilderness to find his own soul, an' he foun' he didn' have no soul that was his'n. Says he foun' he jus' got a little piece of a great big soul. Says a wilderness ain't no good, 'cause his little piece of a soul wasn't no good 'less it was with the rest, an' was whole. Funny how I remember. Didn't even think I was listenin'. But I know now a fella ain't no good alone.”

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Author:John Steinbeck
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“CHORONZON: I am a dire wolf, prey-stalking, lethal prowler. MORPHEUS: I am a hunter, horse-mounted, wolf-stabbing. CHORONZON: I am a horsefly, horse-stinging, hunter-throwing. MORPHEUS: I am a spider, fly-consuming, eight legged. CHORONZON: I am a snake, spider-devouring, posion-toothed. MORPHEUS: I am an ox, snake-crushing, heavy-footed. CHORONZON: I am an anthrax, butcher bacterium, warm-life destroying. MORPHEUS: I am a world, space-floating, life-nurturing. CHORONZON: I am a nova, all-exploding... planet-cremating. MORPHEUS: I am the Universe -- all things encompassing, all life embracing. CHORONZON: I am Anti-Life, the Beast of Judgment. I am the dark at the end of everything. The end of universes, gods, worlds... of everything. Sss. And what will you be then, Dreamlord? MORPHEUS: I am hope.”

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Book:The Sandman, Vol. 1: Preludes & Nocturnes
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“I could not have desired her enough. She was a living soul and could be loved forever. Like every living creature, she carried in her the presence of eternity. That was why, as she grew older, I saw in her always the child she had been, and why, looking at her when she was a child, I felt the influence of the woman she would be. That is why, in marrying one another, we mortals say "till death." We must take love to the limit of time, because time cannot limit it. A life cannot limit it. Maybe to have it in your hear all your life in this world, even while it fails here, is to succeed. Maybe that is enough”

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Book:Jayber Crow
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