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Your mother.. started pouring scorn on a.. painting that hang in our dining room all these years. She ridiculed it for sweetening reality, for lying

“And now look how my memory is making an idiot out of me”

When we were conquered by the poles and then by the red army and then by the nazis… and then there was Stalin again, with NKVD. Rovno was thrown from hand to hand like a puppy being teased by Russia, Poland, Russia, Germany, Russia. And now it doesn’t belong to Poland or to Russia but to Ukraine. Or is it Belarus?.. what there was doesn’t exist anymore and what there is now will also turn to nothing

It behind this faith in the diploma there is smth else, and that is that the girls those days.. even the girls who went to universities are entitled to the education and the place outside the home but only until the children are born. Your life is your own only for a short time from when you leave your parents home until your first pregnancy. From that moment.. we had to begin to live our lives only for the children

The diploma is the Jews religion. Not money, not gold - the diploma

Soc.status and hereditary traits = cards that were dealt, no free will. How to play with these = freedom. How you play though depends on your traits (= no freedom). The last resort: to laugh at our condition or to lament it, to play the game or go through our hand. … In a nutshell: to go through life awake or in stupor.

Me: effort = freedom

What a woman should look for in her man: decency and kindness. I [the mom] rate decency higher than kindness. Decency is the bread, kindness is the butter - or the honey.

He believed in two things: compassion and justice. But he was of the opinion that you always had to make a connection between them. J without C isn’t J, it’s an abattoir. On the other hand, C without J lay be alright for Jesus but not for simple mortals who have eaten the apple of evil. That was his view. A little less organising, a little more pity

Scholars “spending a week on a single footnote and who bothers to read us? If we are lucky, 2 or 3 prisoners of our own discipline read our books before they tear us to shreds, sometimes not even that”

Dinner with borscht, grandma’s critic (“really very nice and almost tasty, but that god preserve her from giving advice but it was well known, every little girl knew…”, poles sweetening everything “without rhyme or reason and if you didn’t watch them they would drown salt herring in sugar…”), mom’s reaction (tnx fir sharing her expertise, promised to serve only bitter and sour food.. to suit her)

If you steal from one book, you are condemned as a plagiarist. But if you steal from 10 books, you are considered a scholar. And if you steal from 30 or 40 books, a distinguished scholar.

“Some 18 months before the nazis came to power in Germany my Zionist grandfather was so blinded by despair of the antisemitism in Vilna that he even applied for German citizenship. Fortunately for us he was turned down by Germany too”

And so the Jews in love with Europe, speaking a dozen of European languages, earning to belong - immigrated almost against their will to “asiatic” Jerusalem

“I’ve known bolsheviks since they were pimping on the harbour of Odessa… The whole of the Bolshevism is just gigantic bluff…”

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“All these new finagled bombs of theirs are in the hands of Jewish scientists and they are bound to know what to do and what not to do”