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“Niets bestaat dat niet iets anders aanraakt.”
― Jeroen Brouwers, Bezonken rood

“No se puede vivir sin amar”
― Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano

“Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

“There lived a redheaded man who had no eyes or ears. He didn’t have hair either, so he was called a redhead arbitrarily. He couldn’t talk because he had no mouth. He had no nose either. He didn’t even have arms or legs. He had no stomach, he had no back, he had no spine, and he had no innards at all. He didn’t have anything. So we don’t even know who we’re talking about. It’s better that we don’t talk about him any more.”
― Daniil Kharms, Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings

“Hate is a lack of imagination.”
― Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory

“if you could reason with religious people, there wouldn’t be any religious people.”
― David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks

“Filosoof zijn is ni schrijve, mor is leve!”
― Felix Timmermans, Pallieter

“Als ik de liefde niet heb begrepen, wat heb ik er dan aan om de rest te begrijpen?”
― Michel Houellebecq, Platform

“Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness.”
― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays