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fear kills, and joy maintains life.

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

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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)

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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Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

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Most intellectual people do not believe in God, but they fear him just the same.

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