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“If I had my life to live over again, I'd live it the same way. Maybe a few changes here or there, but nothing special. The truth is, honey, I've enjoyed my life. I've had a hell of a good time.”
― Ava Gardner, Ava: My Story

“I wish I could do whatever I liked behind the curtain of “madness”. Then: I’d arrange flowers, all day long, I’d paint; pain, love and tenderness, I would laugh as much as I feel like at the stupidity of others, and they would all say: “Poor thing, she’s crazy!” (Above all I would laugh at my own stupidity.) I would build my world which while I lived, would be in agreement with all the worlds. The day, or the hour, or the minute that I lived would be mine and everyone else’s - my madness would not be an escape from “reality”.”
― Frida Kahlo

“The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.”
― Chinua Achebe

“Manchmal wurden einem Dinge erst bewusst, sobald man davon erzählte. Behielt man Dinge für sich, konnte man sie schöndenken, verzerren oder gar verdrängen. Doch sprach man sie aus, dann stand die Wahrheit unwiderruflich im Raum. Lachte einem ins Gesicht und schrie einem entgegen, was man nicht wahrhaben wollte.”
― Carina Bartsch, Kirschroter Sommer