"If we made a mistake, then we made a mistake ; after all, what's been missing in the European fight for socialism over the last 100 years, is the element of 'madness'"

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“Wonderful, I like cars, too, I like all the great things you can buy in a department store. But when you have to buy them in order to stay unaware, comatose, then the price you pay is too high.”

“This is the Auschwitz generation, and there's no arguing with them!”

“Please never say again that I wanted to be rid of Felix, I am getting frantic here … When I get out I 'want' Felix terribly, but I don't want to take him away from you.”

“We are brutal with ourselves...., and one of the consequences this could have is that we will be equally brutal and cold with everyone else. Perhaps that's exactly what I've been missing.... A stroke of a sword, a well-aimed bullet must be less than what I feel when I think of being near you.”

“Don’t blather that it is too hard. The action to liberate Baader wasn’t crocheting doilies either.”

“Hell YES! Andreas, praxis, you said it!”

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