INDIFFERENCE

Quote for the Day - Wednesday,  December 5, 2012

"The tragedy of love is indifference."

William Somerset Maugham [1874-1965], in The Trembling of a Leaf  [1921] 


Note: Next to this painting I found on line by Fritz Hirschberger  was this poem by this same painter: 

Fear not your enemies, 
for they can only kill you.

Fear not your friends,
for they can only betray you.

Fear only the indifferent,
who permit the killers and
betrayers to walk safely on earth.


And below it were these notes:

Text and art by Fritz Hirschberger are from "The Holocaust Series: Sur-Rational Paintings" and reprinted with permission of the Regis Foundation, Minneapolis, MN. Fritz Hirschberger's full series of art work on the Shoah can be found athttp://www.chgs.umn.edu/Visual___Artistic_Resources/Fritz_Hirschberger/fritz_hirschberger.html andhttp://www.chgs.umn.edu/Visual___Artistic_Resources/Fritz_Hirschberger2/fritz_hirschberger2.html. For more information, contact the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies: Dr. Stephen Feinstein, Director, tel: (612) 626-2235, email: feins001@umn.edu, web: http://www.chgs.umn.edu.

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