#euro

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#importance #nervous-breakdowns #neurosis #perspective #self-perception

It touched me to be trusted with something terrible. ↗

— Elizabeth Kostova

#dark #dracula #european #fiction #historian

What do you want with these special Jewish pains? I feel as close to the wretched victims of the rubber plantations in Putamayo and the blacks of Africa with whose bodies the Europeans play ball… I have no special corner in my heart for the ghetto: I am at home in the entire world, where there are clouds and birds and human tears. ↗

— Rosa Luxemburg

#africans #antisemitism #compassion #empathy #europeans

It wasn't my choice to write this story...it was my responsibility. ↗

— Rhonda Fink-Whitman

#genocide #germany #historical-fiction #holocaust #poland

You have to quit confusing a madness with a mission. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#delusion #extremism #fanaticism #fanatics #guerrilla-decontextualism

That's why so many stars are making pictures in Europe today. The tax guys are making thieves out of everybody. ↗

— Bud Abbott

#everybody #guys #making #many #out

The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a very bad light and Africans in very lurid terms. The reason for this had to do with the need to justify the slave trade and slavery. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#bad #body #contact #european #five

We played the same thing in Europe we played in the States. ↗

— Luther Allison

#played #same #states #thing

Well, I first started going to Europe in the late '70s. ↗

— Luther Allison

#first #going #i #late #started

I was in Europe and it was at this stage that I fell in love with Americans in uniform. And I continue to have that love affair. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#continue #europe #fell #i #love