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“Es gibt immer einen Punkt dabei, wo man nicht mehr weiß, ob man lügt oder ob das, was man erfunden hat, wahrer ist als man selber.”
― Robert Musil, The Confusions of Young Törless

“Unsere Zeit ist eine Zeit der Erfüllung, und Erfüllungen sind immer Enttäuschungen.”
― Robert Musil

“Ich weiß jetzt nichts von Rätseln. Alles geschieht: Das ist die ganze Weisheit.”
― Robert Musil, The Confusions of Young Törless

“One does what one is; one becomes what one does.”
― Robert Musil

“The difference between a normal person and an insane one is precisely that the normal person has all the diseases of the mind, while the madman has only one!”
― Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

“Nur wer erwachsen wird und ein Kind bleibt, ist ein Mensch.”
― Erich Kästner

“It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“And the rest is rust and stardust.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta. She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita. Did she have a precursor? She did, indeed she did. In point of fact, there might have been no Lolita at all had I not loved, one summer, an initial girl-child. In a princedom by the sea. Oh when? About as many years before Lolita was born as my age was that summer. You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, exhibit number one is what the seraphs, the misinformed, simple, noble-winged seraphs, envied. Look at this tangle of thorns.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.”
― Denis Diderot, Essai sur le mérite et la vertu

“Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.”
― Max Frisch, Homo Faber

“Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.”
― Max Frisch

“To save all we must risk all.”
― Friedrich von Schiller, Fiesco; or, the Genoese Conspiracy

“Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers."

(Il ne faut pas toucher aux idoles: la dorure en reste aux mains.)”
― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

“Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
― Gustave Flaubert

“Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.”
― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

“And thus the heart will break, yet brokenly live on.”
― George Gordon Byron

“If I do not write to empty my mind, I go mad.”
― George Gordon Byron

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

“Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.”
― Jean Paul

“There is no place like home.”
― L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

“Do not read as children do to enjoy themselves, or, as the ambitious do to educate themselves. No, read to live.”
― Gustave Flaubert

“Wir waren jene, die wussten, aber nicht verstanden, voller Informationen, aber ohne Erkenntnis, randvoll mit Wissen, aber mager an Erfahrung. So gingen wir, von uns selbst nicht aufgehalten.”
― Roger Willemsen, Wer wir waren

“If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

“I'm going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will become.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit

“But paradise is locked and bolted....
We must make a journey around the world to see if a back door has perhaps been left open.”
― Heinrich von Kleist, On a Theatre of Marionettes

“Life is full of strange absurdities, which, strangely enough, do not even need to appear plausible, since they are true.”
― Luigi Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author

“Politeness is organized indifference.”
― Paul Valéry

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan