Jacques Lusseyran Quotes

1924–1971 France

Jacques Lusseyran (19 September 1924 – 27 July 1971) was a French author and political activist. He was blinded at age 7 and at 17 formed a resistance group in Nazi occupied France, for which he was later sent to Buchenwald concentration camp.

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Friendship was salvation, in this fragile world the only thing left that was not fragile. I promise you one can be drunk on friendship as well as on love.

And There Was Light: The Extraordinary Memoir of a Blind Hero of the French Resistance in World War II (1998)

Throw yourself into each moment as if it were the only one that really existed. Work and work hard.

And There Was Light: The Extraordinary Memoir of a Blind Hero of the French Resistance in World War II (1998)

fear kills, and joy maintains life.

And There Was Light: The Extraordinary Memoir of a Blind Hero of the French Resistance in World War II (1998)

I am certain that children always know more than they are able to tell, and that makes the big difference between them and adults, who, at best, know only a fraction of what they say. The reason is simply that children know everything with their whole beings, while we know it only with our heads.

And There Was Light: The Extraordinary Memoir of a Blind Hero of the French Resistance in World War II (1998)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Jacques Lusseyran (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.