Alice Borchardt Quotes on Survival
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Some of the captured women killed themselves. I didn't. others yielded and learned to love their captors. I wouldn't do either one. I knew I would escape. Death is forever; to learn to love the hand that crushes you is a shame not to be borne. Pain and slavery will pass. I believed this and it kept me alive
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you're frightening me' 'be frightened. Sometimes its very intelligent to be afraid'
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Love is important, and woman being shrewd bargainers probably know fame is not worth much. I'd much rather have something I can spend, eat, or love, thank you very much
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the little death. What would or could be left of a human being after such an experience?
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God, to breathe. Air. You don't know what it means until you cannot take a breath