"Afraid of being caught by the Gestapo while fleeing France, [Koestler] borrowed suicide pills from Walter Benjamin. He took them several weeks later when it seemed he would be unable to get out of Lisbon, but didn’t die. " Anne Applebaum, „Did The Death Of Communism Take Koestler And Other Literary Figures With It?“ Huffington Post, 28 March 2010, URL retrieved 15 March 2012.
