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Some questions should not even be thought. The facts alone suffice.

— Ida Fink A Scrap of Time and Other Stories (1985)

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What our cousin experienced, locked up in that room, will remain forever a mystery.

A Scrap of Time and Other Stories (1985)

Each day and night of those weeks could fill a book, if only the pen could take on this burden of despair and helpless loneliness.

A Scrap of Time and Other Stories (1985)

The execution itself did not take long; more time was spent on the preparatory digging of the grave.

A Scrap of Time and Other Stories (1985)

He had that horrifying clarity of vision that comes just before death.

A Scrap of Time and Other Stories (1985)

This time was measured not in months but in a word-we no longer said "in the beautiful month of May," but "after the first 'action,' or the second, or "right before the third."

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