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"There is no sense to a sacrifice after you come to feel that it is a sacrifice."
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"Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it."
"Christmas is God being relentless to the point that He would die in that relentlessness."
"Employment sells out the future life."
"We have errantly romanticized love as something we freely get verses something we sacrifice for in the giving."
"Because what my gradmother did with her fine coat (the loveliest thing she would ever own) is what all women of that generation (and before) did for their families and their husbands and their children. They cut up the finest and proudest parts of themselves and gave it all away. They repatterned what was theirs and shaped it for others. They went without. They were the last ones to eat at supper, and they were the first ones to get up every morning, warming the cold kitchen for another day spent caring for everyone else. This was the only thing they knew how to do. This was their guiding verb and their defining principle of life: They gave."
"Someone needs to fight, someone needs to sacrifice, someone needs to inspire, someone needs to be a hero."
"Life demands death to self."
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"Fate is never too generous even to its favorites. Rarely do the gods grant a mortal more than one immortal deed."
"When they are preparing for war, those who rule by force speak most copiously about peace until they have completed the mobilization process."
"In history, the moments during which reason and reconciliation prevail are short and fleeting."
"The free, independent spirit who commits himself to no dogma and will not decide in favor of any party has no homestead on earth."
"Only the misfortune of exile can provide the in-depth understanding and the overview into the realities of the world."
"Never can the innate power of a work be hidden or locked away. A work of art can be forgotten by time; it can be forbidden and rejected but the elemental will always prevail over the ephemeral."
"Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life."
"The idea of Jewish unity, of a plan, an organization, unfortunately exists only in the brains of Hitler and Streicher."
"Today, for a Jew who writes in the German language, it is totally impossible to make a living. In no group do I see as much misery, disappointment, desperation and hopelessness as in Jewish writers who write in German."
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