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“Furthermore, the world of books, like meat in cans, was somehow richer and more flavorful than the everyday variety. In ordinary life, for example, one saw many people without really knowing them, while in books one even knew what people were thinking and planning.”
― Jerzy Kosiński, The Painted Bird

“Life is nothing until it is lived; but it is yours to make sense of and the value of it is nothing else but the sense that you choose.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism is a Humanism

“Yes, people of Hiroshima died manly in the atomic bombing, believing that it was for Emperor’s sake.”
― John Hersey, Hiroshima

“As for the use of the bomb, she would say, “It was war and we had to expect it.” And then she would add, “Shikata ga nai,” a Japanese expression as common as, and corresponding to, the Russian word “nichevo”: “It can’t be helped. Oh, well. Too bad.” Dr. Fujii said approximately the same thing about the use of the bomb to Father Kleinsorge one evening, in German: “Da ist nichts zu machen. There’s nothing to be done about it.”
― John Hersey, Hiroshima