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“Is there no saving what betrays itself?”

Book:The Rest of Love

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The Rest of Love

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Carl Phillips

Carl Phillips, born on July 23, 1959, is an American writer known primarily for his poetry, which also includes novels and essays. His poetry style is distinctive, often exploring personal emotions and the relationship between history and memory. more

“Förste was still sitting in his cell in the same place. He dared not move from the spot. There was no way out for him any more, and no rescue. With deep sadness in his heart he had to admit that the years of existing like a ghost in the bunker had not hardened him and that he was anything but a fighter. Yet he still had one satisfaction: he had remained a decent person, and with modest joy he thought of the good he had done for Höfel and Kropinski, who were now going to die with him. In his death he would become one of the great host that was without name or number, humus soil out of which some day a finer world would flower. Perhaps there was the meaning he was looking for. When the camp gate was blown up, that soul would already have claimed him. . . .”

Sad Holocaust Holocaust Literature

Book:Nackt unter Wölfen

Source: Nackt unter Wölfen

“Hope is a poison we drink way too often.”

Love Life Truth Hope Drink Sad Poison Think Hopless

Author:Laura Chouette

“I like places in which things have happened — even if they're sad things.”

Sad Happenings Henry James Places The Portrait Of A Lady Incident

Book:The Portrait of a Lady

Source: The Portrait of a Lady

“I am out of the saga, he thought. He had a heavy sense of being left in total isolation; everyone had withdrawn from him and the person who could most have helped him was pre-empted by another.”