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“I heard a Californian student in Heidelberg say, in one of his calmest moods, that he would rather decline two drinks than one German adjective.”
― Mark Twain, The Awful German Language / Die schreckliche deutsche Sprache

“I’m learning that human contact has brought me more joy than I’d like to admit... I never wanted to be dependent on others because I’ve been hurt so much. I was an only child. I didn’t want to have to be around other human beings to feel whole. But this entire experience has taught me that there is a happy medium within reach. My plan is not only to clean my house and my life up, but to search for that medium, that middle ground. I’d love to live less insanely.”
― Dave Navarro, Don't Try This at Home: A Year in the Life of Dave Navarro

“Ich war ein ängstliches Kind; trotzdem war ich gewiß auch störrisch, wie Kinder sind; gewiß verwöhnte mich die Mutter auch, aber ich kann nicht glauben, daß ich besonders schwer lenkbarwar, ich kann nicht glauben, daß ein freundliches Wort, ein stilles Bei-der-Hand-Nehmen, ein guter Blick mir nicht alles hätten abfordern können, was man wollte.”
― Franz Kafka

“But why say more? All men live enveloped in whale- lines. All are born with halters round their necks; but it is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn of death, that mortals realize the silent, subtle, ever-present perils of life.”
― Herman Melville, Moby Dick

“Wie von selbst gleiten meine Hände den Bauch herab, bleiben kurz dort liegen, warme Haut auf heißer Haut, um sich dann langsam weiter nach unten zu tasten, wo sie ihren eigenen geübten Rhythmus finden, der schneller ist als mein Atem, schneller als mein Pulsschlag. Ich vertraue darauf, dass das die Einsamkeit vertreibt, aber es macht sie nur noch größer.”
― Andreas Steinhöfel, Die Mitte der Welt

“I'm more unsettled than nervous. It's like I'm an oyster. I've had this sharp speck inside me for a long time, and I've been trying to make it more comfortable, so slowly I've turned it into a pearl.”
― Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist

“Wilbur Larch looked at Homer; God, how he loved what he saw! Proud as a father, he had trouble speaking. His affection for Homer Wells had virtually etherized him.”
― John Irving, The Cider House Rules

“It has to do with relating to someone from the groundwork of our basic physical sexuality. As long as the naked body elicits responses from men and women, there will be transsexuals.”
― Lou Sullivan, From Female to Male: The Life of Jack Bee Garland

“But, gentlemen, the fool had been branded for the slaughter by the gods. Immediately the hammer touched the cheek; the next instant the lower jaw of the mate was stove in his head; he fell on the hatch spouting blood like a whale.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale