Luke Pickrell

“But where is the root of suffering? He begins talking about the happiness of suffering, about the beauty of suffering. Suffering is not dirty, suffering is not pitiable. No, suffering is great because suffering makes people great...It is impossible to convince him that suffering is something unworthy.”
― Stig Dagerman , German Autumn

“But so uncaring is life against the man who has killed a child that everything after is too late.”
― Stig Dagerman, Att döda ett barn

“Once, when I was slicing bread, my knife slipped; instantly, I remembered how in the morning she used to cut thin slices of bread and pour warm milk on them for the children.”
― Peter Handke, A Sorrow Beyond Dreams

“The slopes to treachery from the dizzy heights of revolutionary leadership are always so steep and slippery that leaders, however well intentioned, can never build their fences too high”
― C.L.R. James, The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution