Jerometed

“Break the character and independence of your man and you will have an obedient trooper.”
― Jan Valtin, Out of the Night: The Memoir of Richard Julius Herman Krebs alias Jan Valtin

“Prisons are built to break men, and when men are broken society has consummated its revenge”
― Jan Valtin, Out of the Night: The Memoir of Richard Julius Herman Krebs alias Jan Valtin

“The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.”
― Paul Valéry, Introduction à la méthode de Léonard de Vinci

“I would not have shied away from an assignment to sail a canoe around Cape Horn or to take charge of the government of Afghanistan.”
― Jan Valtin, Out of the Night: The Memoir of Richard Julius Herman Krebs alias Jan Valtin