Its the reductionist approach to life: if you keep it small, youll keep it under control. If you dont make any noise, the bogeyman wont find you. But its all an illusion, because they die too, those people who roll up their spirits into tiny little balls so as to be safe. Safe?! From what? Life is always on the edge of death; narrow streets lead to the same place as wide avenues, and a little candle burns itself out just like a flaming torch does. I choose my own way to burn.
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About Sophie Scholl
Sophie Scholl was a 20th-century German anti-nazi student activist. Sophia Magdalena Scholl was a German student and anti-Nazi political activist, active in the White Rose non-violent resistance group in Nazi Germany. Read more on Wikipedia →
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