understanding that all these people somehow are kind of my grandparents, are kind of the people that lived a life in a way so incomplete in order for me to have a life that is better than his. They risked their lives with trying to love and trying to fulfill their passion. And all those stories are silenced.
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The universe is not hostile, nor yet is it friendly. It is simply indifferent. To that indifference man brings imagination — and that is the beginning of all we call civilization.
John Haynes Holmes — The Sensible Man's View of Religion
What constitutes the freedom, the soul of an individual life, is its uniqueness. The reflection of the universe in someone's consciousness is the foundation of his or her power, but life only becomes happiness, is only endowed with freedom and meaning when someone exists as a whole world that has never been repeated in all eternity. Only then can they experience the joy of freedom and kindness, finding in others what they have already found in themselves.
Vassily Grossman
The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less. And the man who has learned to hate himself completely has achieved something very nearly like freedom.
Eldridge Cleaver — Soul on Ice