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If there remained in him only the strength for one tiny movement in the direction of freedom, no matter how senseless and useless the movement, he would still want to make it. (chapter III p173)

— Anna Seghers The Seventh Cross (1942)

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A miracle that he was even speaking, and then to say what he had said. Usually you hear only about the things that excited people, never about what silenced them. (from "Tales of Artemis")

The whole town was a tortuous net in which he was already caught. He would have to slip through the meshes. (chapter III p173)

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