Top 10 Victor Klemperer Quotes
#1. In the war I was subject to military law, but subject to law nevertheless; now I am at the mercy of an arbitrary power.
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#2. Newspapers are read differently now [ ... ] Between the lines.
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#3. Does one unceasingly talk about a thousand years and enemies destroyed, if one is certain of these thousand years and this annihilation?
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#4. National Socialism adapts Fascism, Bolshevism, Americanism, works it all into Teutonic Romanticism.
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#5. We hear a lot about Palestine now; it does not appeal to us. Anyone who goes there exchanges nationalism and narrowness for nationalism and narrowness.
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#6. Academics love the semicolon; their hankering after logic demands a division which is more emphatic than a comma, but not quite as absolute a demarcation as a full stop.
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#7. Socialism has now become completely or almost completely identical with Bolshevism; that
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#9. I only have the quite childish horror of the grave and of nothingness
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#10. They have over-cultivated national rhetoric [ ... ] they will have to undertake something.
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