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We adjust to changes without measuring them; we forget how much the culture changed.
Rebecca Solnit • Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
by the sort of relatable dead Jews whom readers can really get behind: the mostly non-religious, mostly non-Yiddish-speaking ones whom noble people tried to save, and whose deaths therefore teach us something beautiful about our shared and universal humanity, replete with epiphanies and moments of grace.
Dara Horn • People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
Favorite documentary Little Dieter Needs to Fly by Werner Herzog is
Timothy Ferriss • Tools Of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers
Survivors don’t have time to ask, “Why me?” For survivors, the only relevant question is, “What now?”
Edith Eger • The Choice: Embrace the Possible
Were we shaped by the spaces in which we existed? At home, our apartment was all boundaries: each wall encasing us without the risk of being seen, a private space when Father was there. The boundaries had been there my entire life, and I’d always respected them. Outside it was more complicated. In the past three years we’d stopped going to restaura
... See moreSanaë Lemoine • The Margot Affair: A Novel
But as my fellow survivors taught me, you can live to avenge the past, or you can live to enrich the present. You can live in the prison of the past, or you can let the past be the springboard that helps you reach the life you want now.
Edith Eger • The Choice
The last day had been the most lethal. We had been a hundred or so in this wagon. Twelve of us left it. Among them, my father and myself. We had arrived in Buchenwald.
Marion Wiesel • Night
The unending problem of growing old was not how he changed, but how things did.