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Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

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Brecht, Bertolt. Die Mutter. Leben der Revolutionärin Pelagea Wlassowa aus Twer [The mother. Life of the Revolutionary Pelagea Vlassova from Tver]. 17 Jan. 1932, Komödienhaus am Schiffbauerdamm, Berlin, Germany.

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Brecht, Bertolt. The Mother. Grove Press, 1994.

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What experience and history teach is this-that nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it.

G.W.F. Hegel

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Hegel, G. W. F. Vorlesungen über die Philosophie der Weltgeschichte [Lectures on the Philosophy of World History]. c. 1830, University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

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Hegel, G. W. F. Lectures on the Philosophy of World History, translated by H. B. Nisbet. Cambridge University Press, 1981.

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No one can be good for long when goodness is not in demand.

Bertolt Brecht

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Brecht, Bertolt. Der gute Mensch von Sezuan [The Good Person of Szechwan]. 1943, Zürich Schauspielhaus, Zürich, Switzerland.

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Brecht, Bertolt. The Good Person Of Szechwan, edited by Tom Kuhn and Charlotte Ryland, translated by John Willett. Methuen Drama, 2012.

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I herewith commission you to carry out all preparations with regard to... A total solution of the Jewish question in those territories of Europe which are under German influence.

Hermann Goering

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Goering, Hermann. Directive to Reinhard Heydrich. 31 July 1941.

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Reach for the book: It is a weapon.

Bertolt Brecht

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Brecht, Bertolt. Die Mutter. Lebed der Revolutionärin Pelagea Wlassowa aus Twer. [The mother. Life of the Revolutionary Pelagea Vlassova from Tver.] 17 Jan. 1932, omödienhaus am Schiffbauerdamm, Berlin, Germany.

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Brecht, Bertolt. The Mother. Grove Press, 1994.

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The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

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Jung, Carl. "Problems of Modern Psychology." Modern Man in Search of a Soul, translated by Cary F. Baynes and William Stanley Dell. Kegen Paul, Trenche, Trubner & Co., 1933.

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I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.

Hermann Hesse

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Hesse, Herman. Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend [Demian: The Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth]. Fischer Verlag, 1919.

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Hesse, Herman. Demian, translated by Damion Searls. Penguin Classics, 2013.

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A good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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Rilke, Rainer Maria. Letter to Emanuel von Bodman. 17 Aug. 1901.

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Rilke, Rainer Maria. Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910, translated by Jane B. Greene and M. D. Herter Norton. W. W. Norton & Company, 1969.

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Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather must recognize that it is he who is asked. In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.

Viktor Frankl

Man's Search for Meaning

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Frankl, Victor. …trotzdem Ja zum Leben sagen: Ein Psychologe erlebt das Konzentrationslager [Man's Search for Meaning: An Introduction to Logotherapy]. Verlag für Jugend und Volk, 1946.

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Frankl, Victor. Man's Search for Meaning. Beacon Press, 2006.

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All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.

Elias Canetti

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Canetti, Elias. Die Provinz des Menschen: Aufzeichnungen 1942-1972. Hanser, 1973.

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People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls.

Carl Jung

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Jung, Carl. Psychologie un Alchemie [Psychology and Alchemy] Routledge, 1944.

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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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Rilke, Rainer Maria. Letter to Paula Modersohn-Becker. 12 Feb. 1902.

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Rilke, Rainer Maria. Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910, translated by Jane B. Greene and M. D. Herter Norton. W. W. Norton & Company, 1969.

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I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us... We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.

Franz Kafka

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Kafka, Franz. Letter to Oskar Pollak. 27 Jan. 1904.

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Kafka, Franz. "To Oscar Pollack, January 27, 1904." Letters to Friends, Family and Editors, translated by Richard and Clara Winston. Schocken, 1990.

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Work liberates.

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Words inscribed on the gates of Dachau concentration camp, 1933, and subsequently on those of Auschwitz.

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Inscription. Appears over the entrance of various Nazi Germany concentration camps. c. 1940.

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One never reaches home... But wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.

Hermann Hesse

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Hesse, Herman. Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend [Demian: The Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth]. Fischer Verlag, 1919.

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Hesse, Herman. Demian, translated by Damion Searls. Penguin Classics, 2013.

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I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods.

Georg Trakl

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Trakl, Georg. "De profundis." Gedichte. Contumax, 1913.

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Trakl, Georg. "De profundis." To the Silenced, translated by Will Stone. Arc Publications, 2005.

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Don't aim at success. The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself.

Viktor Frankl

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Frankl, Victor. …trotzdem Ja zum Leben sagen: Ein Psychologe erlebt das Konzentrationslager [Man's Search for Meaning: An Introduction to Logotherapy]. Verlag für Jugend und Volk, 1946.

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Frankl, Victor. Man's Search for Meaning. Beacon Press, 2006.

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Would it not be easier
In that case for the government
To dissolve the people
And elect another?

Bertolt Brecht

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Brecht, Bertolt. "Die Lösung [The Solution]." Die Welt, 1959.

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Every civilized human being, whatever his conscious development, is still an archaic man at the deeper levels of his psyche.

Carl Jung

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Jung, Carl. "Archaic Man." Modern Man in Search of a Soul, translated by Cary F. Baynes and William Stanley Dell. Kegen Paul, Trenche, Trubner & Co., 1933.

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