Jerometed

“We were the unflinching prisoners of a grandiose make-believe, we who looked upon ourselves as heard-headed materialists. We dismissed the distress of today, the human wreckage scattered all about us, the terror and militarism prevailing in the country with the stereotyped belief that we were marching forward with great strides.”
― Jan Valtin, Out of the Night: The Memoir of Richard Julius Herman Krebs alias Jan Valtin

“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

“My hand feels touched as well as it touches; reality says this, and nothing more.”
― Paul Valéry, Selected Writings

“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