“Timidity keeps me safe and sad in a narrow room.”
City Aphorisms, Eighth Selection (1991)
“Timidity keeps me safe and sad in a narrow room.”
City Aphorisms, Eighth Selection (1991)
“Keep this safe, it is my whole life.”
Quote of Charlotte Salomon, 1943; as cited on Wikipedia, English
as the Nazis intensified their search for Jews living in the South of France in 1943, she handed the 769 paintings on paper over to a trusted friend with these words
“But if you didn't believe in monsters, then how were you going to be able to keep safe from them?”
Source: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
Jim Barenson, Prologue, p. xv-xvi
2000s, The Guardian (2003)
“We feel our shell keeps us safe, but it crushes us and others, and keeps out light and sun.”
As quoted in Zen Miracles : Finding Peace in an Insane World (2002) by Brenda Shoshanna, p. 80