13 Quotes by Hélène Berr

The impression that what is extraordinary is real, and that the real is the extraordinary.

Now that everybody thinks he looks a little Slavic, it annoys me. I don't want that to be the reason I find him charming. I found him charming for no reason, because he is who he is.

...For I do now know that it is cowardly. We do not have the right to think only of poetry on this earth. It is magical, but utterly selfish.

Being free to suffer alone is itself a consolation.