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“They have all been very kind to me here. But this I would say, standing as I do in view of God and eternity, I realise that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.”

“About the Brussels hospital”

“I have no fear nor shrinking; I have seen death so often that it is not strange or fearful to me.”

“Someday, somehow, I am going to do something useful, something for people. They are, most of them, so helpless, so hurt and so unhappy.”

“Royal Norfolk Regimental Museum-Edith Cavell”

“A German soldier executed for allegedly refusing to fire at Edith Cavell's execution”

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— Bertrand Russell

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"In the bardic tradition, art was understood as magic, the guy who could paint on the cave wall, he was a magician. The idea of representation was a magical idea. Then something happened, and then we a…"

— Alan Moore

Literature1953

#art

"I think of the fox that Park Service Ranger Gene Parker told me about. The fox sprawled naked and pink-skinned in a mountain field, unable to rise, dying of mange. I think of the swimming bluegill I s…"

— Annie Dillard

Literature1945–2026

#life

"Psychoanalysis will be entirely discredited one of these days, no doubt about it. Which will not keep it from destroying our last vestiges of naivete. After psychoanalysis, we can never again be innoc…"

— Emil Cioran

Philosophy1911–1995

#time