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Anna Quangel felt herself trembling. Then she looked over at Otto again. He might be right: whether
1)
The postcard
2)
No one:
The author: Otto has a BIRD FACE
“And so you are! In an extended sense, of course. In a broader sense, your apathy made it possible…”
Apathy
of quiet triumph, producing a second chart, “I have made up a second map, on which I have drawn
“No, and you will never understand it, either. It doesn’t matter if one man fights or ten thousand; if the one man sees he has no option but to fight, then he will fight, whether he has others on his side or not. I had to fight, and given the chance I would do it again. Only I would do it very differently.”
Chapter 49
swine! And then, once they were all well
I will die for committing acts that were not crimes, and you will live—so much for the justice of your cause!
Justice
Quangel is right to call Hitler a murderer and me his henchman. I never cared who manned the tiller, or why this war was being fought, so long as I was able to go about my usual business, the catching of human beings. Then, once I’d caught them, I didn’t care what became of them… But now I do care.
Ch 50
I smashed my glass over the head of the only decent man here, but each blow was like a sprinkling of earth on my coffin.
Ch 50 2
“Here I am, probably the only man Otto Quangel converted with his postcard campaign. But I’m no good to you, Otto Quangel, I can’t carry on your labor. I’m too much of a coward. Still, I’m your only disciple, Otto Quangel!”
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They had done nothing. But they were doomed…
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“But in life you need to be tough sometimes, Doctor!” “No, you don’t. And a saying like that is justification for every form of brutality, Quangel!”
56
it would have been a hundred times better if we’d had someone who could have told us. Such and such is what you have to do; our plan is this and this. But if there had been such a man in Germany, then Hitler would never have come to power in 1933. As it was, we all acted alone, we were caught alone, and every one of us will have to die alone. But that doesn’t mean that we are alone, Quangel, or that our deaths will be in vain.
Every man dies alone.
