Do not commit the error, common among the young, of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind you have failed.

His book was banned and he was forced into hiding assuming the identity of an elderly woman in a nursing home. Six years later in 2002 Jan de Hartog died at the age of 88. Conditions there were bad at that time and with the hospital being significantly underfunded understaffed and overcrowded showed no sign of getting better.