Thomas Keneally

Schindler's Ark

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  • natalyalitrovnikhas quoted7 years ago
    But for the present, Hauptsturmführer Amon Goeth, a sadist when drunk, was an exemplary Viennese gentleman.
  • Habitante de librohas quoted6 years ago
    “He who saves a single life saves the world entire.”
  • Habitante de librohas quoted6 years ago
    Oskar was unstoppable.
  • Habitante de librohas quoted6 years ago
    “She was dominated by Oskar,” Lutek would say. “As we all were. Yet she was her own woman.”
  • Habitante de librohas quoted6 years ago
    It would not surprise anyone to find out later that no such reunion occurred anywhere else in stricken Europe. That there had never been, and would not be, any other Auschwitz rescue like this one.
  • Habitante de librohas quoted6 years ago
    The list is an absolute good. The list is life.
  • Habitante de librohas quoted6 years ago
    It can be said to begin with that Oskar was a gambler, was a sentimentalist who loved the transparency, the simplicity of doing good; that Oskar was by temperament an anarchist who loved to ridicule the system; and that beneath the hearty sensuality lay a capacity to be outraged by human savagery, to react to it and not to be overwhelmed.
  • Habitante de librohas quoted6 years ago
    For Hitler was more than a man: he was a system with ramifications. Even if he died, it was no guarantee the system would alter its character.
  • Habitante de librohas quoted6 years ago
    If it was true, said Oskar, then Germans, ordinary Germans like himself, could begin to redeem themselves.
    Purely because someone close to Hitler had had the
    guts to remove him from the earth. It’s the end of the
    SS, said Oskar. Himmler will be in jail
    by morning.
  • Habitante de librohas quoted6 years ago
    He managed it as one would manage a country
    fair. When it began, on the morning of Sunday,
    May 7, the Appellplatz was hung with
    banners: “FOR EVERY PRISONER,
    APPROPRIATE WORK!”
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