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“The world under heaven, after a long period of division, tends to unite; after a long period of union, tends to divide. This has been so since antiquity. ”
― Luo Guanzhong, Romance of the Three Kingdoms Vol. 1

“For those she liked she did things; to those she didn't like she did other things.”
― Manly Wade Wellman, Fearful Rock, and Other Precarious Locales

“Are you slow-witted? I'm so sorry for you. It's terrible to be dull and stupid.”
― Lloyd Alexander, The Book of Three

“Nicht nach oben buckeln und nach unten treten - sondern umgekehrt.”
― Uli Hoeneß

“Der Augenblick muß es ergeben."
"Wenn aber kein solcher Augenblick kommt?"
"So führe ich ihn herbei.”
― Karl May, Der Löwe der Blutrache

“Blessed is the mind too small for doubt.”
― Rick Priestley, Warhammer 40,000 Rogue Trader

“What a strange thing!
to be alive
beneath cherry blossoms.”
― Kobayashi Issa, Poems

“Take up the tale," quoth Umslopogaas; "it is a merry one.”
― H. Rider Haggard, Nada the Lily

“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
― Benjamin Franklin, Memoirs of the life & writings of Benjamin Franklin

“Wives should be kissed - not heard.”
― Stan Lee, Essential Fantastic Four, Vol. 4

“Zeit ist Geld (auch für Angestellte).”
― Dagobert Duck

“Es gehört viel Demut und Selbstüberwindung dazu, die Größe seines Geistes so zu verhüllen, daß kein Unschuldiger durch sie niedergeschmettert wird.”
― Karl May, Bei den Trümmern von Babylon

“The longer I live, the more I observe that carrying around anger is the most debilitating to the person who bears it.”
― Katharine Graham

“Buddha rode in the trunk, which had to be roped shut. I thought this was going to be the first in a long line of hassles. But, as it turned out, Tsung Tsai was right: Buddha was a breeze. He flowed through the porters, ticket checkers, and security at JFK, gliding on a benevolent cloud. His strange gray Buddha shadow floated on the x-ray monitor.

'Jesus!' said the x-ray operator to the guard.
'Similar', Tsung Tsai said.”
― George Crane, Bones of the Master: A Journey to Secret Mongolia

“An dem Ort, an dem wir recht haben,
werden niemals Blumen wachsen
im Frühjahr.

Der Ort, an dem wir recht haben,
ist zertrampelt und hart
wie ein Hof.”
― Jehuda Amichai

“Filling with food,
Warming with clothes,
Living leisurely without learning,
It is little short of animals.”
― Mencius, Mencius

“Everything will be alright in the end so if it is not alright it is not the end.”
― Deborah Moggach, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

“Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

“Sent as a present from Annam
A red cockatoo.
Coloured like the peach-tree blossom,
Speaking with the speech of men.
And they did to it what is always done
To the learned and eloquent.
They took a cage with stout bars
And shut it up inside.”
― Bai Juyi

“The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.”
― Joseph Conrad, Under Western Eyes

“The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.”
― Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss

“Your effort to remain what you are is what limits you.”
― Masamune Shirow, Ghost in the Shell

“¿Qué es la vida? Una ilusión,
una sombra, una ficción,
y el mayor bien es pequeño:
que toda la vida es sueño,
y los sueños, sueños son.”
― Pedro Calderón de la Barca, La vida es sueño

“Whatever a monk keeps pursuing with his thinking and pondering, that becomes the inclination of his awareness.”
― Siddhārtha Gautama

“I pop a beautiful sentence into my mouth and suck it like a fruit drop.”
― Bohumil Hrabal

“Rebirth. I mean by this simply what happens when the child begins to realise the fact that the black does not enter through the white’s front door is not in the same category as the fact that the dead will never come back.”
― Nadine Gordimer

“Fear prophets, Adso, and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.”
― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

“You are fettered," said Scrooge, trembling. "Tell me why?"
"I wear the chain I forged in life," replied the Ghost. "I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it.”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

“Könnt eins doch allweil ein Kind bleiben! Da ist jeder Tag ein ganzes Leben. Nachher schlafst du und fangst wieder ein neues an.”
― Ludwig Ganghofer, Der Klosterjäger: Historischer Roman