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“erstaunlich, dass der Mensch nur hinter einer Maske ganz er selbst ist.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“Das Drama aller Zeiten hat eigentlich nur ein einziges Thema gehabt: die Unfähigkeit der Menschen, miteinander zu leben.”
― Gerhard Bronner

“Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs;
Being purg'd, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes;
Being vex'd, a sea nourish'd with lovers' tears;
What is it else? A madness most discreet,
A choking gall, and a preserving sweet.”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

“You are describing the world and by describing it you are creating it”
― Stevens

“The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.”
― Robert Frost

“sameness, not difference, provokes our greatest anxiety”
― Diana Fuss, Human, All Too Human

“what really mattered in life, what gave it weight, was death”
― Jeffrey Eugenides

“Everyone struggles against despair, but it always wins in the end. It has to. It's the thing that lets us say goodbye.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

“You don't stop loving someone just because you hate them.”
― Hanif Kureishi, Intimacy

“Ist es nicht eine Unart, nie den Augenblick der Gegenwart ergreifen zu können, sondern immer in der Zukunft zu leben?”
― KLEIST HEINRICH VON TOUNIER MICHEL

“I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.”
― Abraham Maslow, Toward a Psychology of Being

“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

“Was wir als Zufall bezeichnen ist eine mathematische Komplexität, die wir nicht berechnen können.”
― Joachim Trebbe

“Ein Leben voller Reisen, Abenteuer und Gefahr, Sehen und Lernen, verherrlicht durch die Liebe - das wünsche ich mir”
― Isabel Burton

“Kunst kommt vom Können und nicht vom Wollen, sonst würde sie "Wunst" heißen.”
― Pia Lux

“I don't belong anywhere.
I am neither a heart, a diamond, a club, nor a spade. I am neither a King, a Jack, an Eight, nor an Ace.
As I am here - I am merely the Joker, and who that is I have had to find out for myself.

Every time I toss my head, the jingling bells remind me that I have no family.
I have no number - and no trade either.
I have gone around observing your activities from the outside.
Because of this I have also been able to see things to which you have been blind.

Every morning you have gone to work, but you have never been fully awake.
It is different for the Joker, because he was put into this world with a flaw:
he sees too deeply and too much.


Truth is a lonely thing.”
― Jostein Gaarder, The Solitaire Mystery

“I don't belong anywhere.
I am neither a heart, a diamond, a club, nor a spade. I am neither a King, a Jack, an Eight, nor an Ace.
As I am here - I am merely the Joker, and who that is I have had to find out for myself.”
― Jostein Gaarder, The Solitaire Mystery