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“When you don't know what you're living for, you don't care how you live from one day to the next. You're happy the day has passed and the night has come, and in your sleep you bury the tedious question of what you lived for that day and what you're going to live for tomorrow.”
― Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov

“Für diese Welt, glaubt's nur, ist mir der Spaß versalzen.“ (3. Akt, 1. Szene)”
― Mercutio, Romeo and Juliet

“Now or neverI 'To be or not to be!'"—Oblomov raised himself from his chair a little, but failing to find his slippers with his feet at once, sat down again.”
― Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov

“Beauty will save the world.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

“Sam looked at the sky to see if there were a lot of stars. There seemed to be a normal amount of stars.”
― Tao Lin, Shoplifting from American Apparel

“Mir ist’s nirgends recht. Es ist, als wäre ich überall eben zu spät gekommen, als hätte die ganze Welt gar nicht auf mich gerechnet.”
― Joseph von Eichendorff, Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts

“At last the gardener arrived, mumbling something about rascals and country bumpkins, and took me out into the park, giving me a lengthy lecture as he did so. I was instructed to be sober and industrious, and not to wander about aimlessly or waste my time in unproductive activities: if I heeded this counsel, he said, I might in time achieve something. He gave me much other useful and well-phrased advice too, but I have since forgotten almost all of it.”
― Joseph von Eichendorff, Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts

“There were no public health laws in Ankh-Morpork. It would be like installing smoke detectors in Hell.”
― Terry Pratchett, Feet of Clay