If seeing her an hour before her lastWeak cough into all blackness I could yetBe held by chalk-white walls-
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There, in the tin factory, in the first moment of the atomic age, a human being was crushed by books.
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Surely there is no more wretched sight that the human body unloved and uncared for.
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But miracles still happen, even if we don't think they do.
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To me it was real war and my life was at stake, and I believe that all those clandestine spy games we played as children helped when the Occupation came.
They thought we were stupid to do it, (hide Jews) of course; in fact, it was beyond their comprehension that we would risk so much for Jews.
After the prayer they executed an armed robbery. That sounds very strange this many years later: prayer and then armed robbery.
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By the end of the war, I could pick out Jewish people almost as if I had a sixth sense about it, even if they had blue eyes and blond hair. I would have been a very valuable Gestapo person.
I felt peace, even though I was still scared to death. I thought that, whatever would happen to me - I could still be killed. I didn't know - and in what I'd already been through, God was in control.
God, there must be a meaning. Fiercely he was certain that there must be a meaning. Surely, while we live we are not lost. Oh Janos, Janos my brother!Surely we are not lost--while we live.
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The one who forgives never brings up the past to that person's face. When you forgive, it's like it never happened. True forgiveness is complete and total.
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Morale was deteriorating and it was all Yossarian's fault. The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.
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I had no real communication with anyone at the time, so I was totally dependent on God. And he never failed me.
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(Thinking while being interrogated by the Germans) You big shots think you can decide on my life, but I have news for you: you can't touch a hair on my head without the will of God my Father, because He is on my side.
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Yet a part of you still believes you can fight and survive no matter what your mind knows. It's not so strange. Where there's still life, there's still hope. What happens is up to God.
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