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“Nur die phantasielosen flüchten sich in die Realität.”
― Arno Schmidt

“There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.”
― Ray Bradbury

“Was ich den Pyrenäen am meisten vorwerfe, ist, dass sie ein Gebirge sind ...”
― Octave Mirbeau

“My ideal goal is to "mature" into childhood. That would be genuine maturity.”
― Bruno Schulz

“Verstehe. Nach meiner Krankenschwester verging mir auch der Appetit.”
― Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Die Physiker

“What you resist, persists”
― C.G. Jung

“Though the doctors treated him, let his blood, and gave him medications to drink, he nevertheless recovered.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“Good novels are not written by orthodoxy-sniffers, nor by people who are conscience-stricken about their own unorthodoxy. Good novels are written by people who are not frightened.”
― George Orwell, Inside the Whale: On Writers and Writing

“We live in an age of reproduction. Most of what makes up our personal picture of the world we have never seen with our own eyes--or rather, we've seen it with our own eyes, but not on the spot: our knowledge comes to us from a distance, we are televiewers, telehearers, teleknowers.”
― Max Frisch, I'm Not Stiller

“Die Welt der Kunst & Fantasie ist die wahre, the rest is a nightmare.”
― Arno Schmidt