"…everything has a past. Everything – a person, an object, a word, everything. If you don’t know the past, you can’t understand the present and plan properly for the future."
— Chaim Potok (Davita's Harp)

""you can tell the deepest truths with the lies of fiction"
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— Isabel Allende

"It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story."
— Haruki Murakami (Kafka on the Shore)

"A little nonsense now and then,
Is cherished by the wisest men."
— John August (3 Engel für Charlie)