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Go where the others have gone, to the tenebrous limit
for the golden fleece of void, your ultimate prize
go upright among those who are on their knees
among those turning their backs on and those fallen to dust.

— Zbigniew Herbert

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You survived not to live on
your time is short, you have to give a proof of truth

I turn to history not for lessons but to confront my experience with the experience of others and to win for myself a sense of responsibility for the state of the human conscience.

And do not forgive indeed it is beyond your power
to forgive in the name of those betrayed at dawn

Now that we're alone we can talk prince man to man
though you lie on the stairs and see no more than a dead ant.

The liver is not a gentleman.

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