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Why, one wonders, does lightning strike in one place rather than another?
The Search Warrant (2000)
Such photographs exist in every family. They were caught in a few seconds, the duration of the exposure, and these second have become an eternity.
The Search Warrant (2000)
The sign had been put up out of suspicion and a guilty conscience: “Military zone. Filming or photography prohibited".
The Search Warrant (2000)
This feeling of not belonging to the same sensation which grips you in a dream, you find yourself walking through an unfamiliar district. On waking you realize, little by little, that the pattern of its streets had overlaid with the one with which, in day time, you are familiar.
The Search Warrant (2000)
That is her secret. A poor and precious secret which not even the executioners the decrees, the occupying authorities, the Depot, the barracks, the camps, history, time – everything that corrupts and destroys you- have been able to take away from her.
The Search Warrant (2000)
Children are liable to expect more from life than their parents, and faced with adversity their reaction is more violent. They go farther, much farther than their parents, and, thereafter, their parents are unable to protect them.
The Search Warrant (2000)
Perhaps it was one of those mild, sunny winter days when you have a feeling of holiday and eternity- the illusion that passage of time is suspended, and that you need only slip through this breach to escape the trap which is closing around you.
The Search Warrant (2000)
Then again, the term “Jew” meant nothing to the fourteen-year-old Dora. When it came down to it, what did people understand by the term “Jew”? For himself, he never gave it a thought. He was used to being put into this or that category by the authorities. Unskilled labourer. Ex –Austrian. French legionnaire. Non- suspect. Ex-serviceman 100% disabled. Foreign statute labourer. Jew.
The Search Warrant (2000)