“The fire was silent, the little houses collapsing into the flames without complaint, flocks of sparks rising to the sky. At a distance it seemed beautiful, and I thought it was strange that powerful violence is often so pleasing to the eye…”
Source: City of Thieves
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David Benioff 13
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Canto I, line 34 (tr. Sinclair).
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From the poems written in English
From an address given at Auschwitz in occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the Holocaust (27 January 1995)
Amors sanz crieme et sans peor
Est feus sanz flame et sanz chalor,
Jorz sanz soloil, bresche sanz miel,
Estez sans flor, iverz sanz giel,
Ciaus sanz lune, livres sanz letre.
Cligès, line 3893.
