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"Das sind viel weniger Spatzenanekdoten und Biologie als viel Sprachwissenschaft, Geschichte und Archäologie parallel zur Geschichte des Spatzen erzählt. Sicher nicht jedermanns Sache, ich finde das aber überwiegend spannend." — Oct 05, 2026 07:36AM
"Das sind viel weniger Spatzenanekdoten und Biologie als viel Sprachwissenschaft, Geschichte und Archäologie parallel zur Geschichte des Spatzen erzählt. Sicher nicht jedermanns Sache, ich finde das aber überwiegend spannend." — Oct 05, 2026 07:36AM
“»Aber weißt du, was besser ist? Noch besser als friedlich sterben?«
»Sag es mir.«
»Nicht sterben, kleine Liz. Das ist viel besser.«”
― Tyll
»Sag es mir.«
»Nicht sterben, kleine Liz. Das ist viel besser.«”
― Tyll
“Hatte [die Französin] Glück, dass sie es noch rechtzeitig gemerkt hat? Und was bedeutet in diesem Zusammenhang 'rechtzeitig'? Und was 'Glück'? Sie hat ja alles verloren - das Glück und die Liebe. Meine Mutter hingegen hat nichts verloren. [...] Ihre letzte Erinnerung war Liebe. Dass sie wirklich glücklich war. So rede ich es mir schön, denn meine Mutter war nicht glücklich. Sie hat auf Glück gewartet.”
― Mama & Sam
― Mama & Sam
“They were big and brave, superb scholars and scientists, musicians, actors and athletes, and they were idiots who were throwing it all away, even as their high culture lamented or roared in pain.”
― What We Can Know
― What We Can Know
“Childhood is dark and it’s always moaning like a little animal that’s locked in a cellar and forgotten. It comes out of your throat like your breath in the cold, and sometimes it’s too little, other times too big. It never fits exactly. It’s only when it has been cast off that you can look at it calmly and talk about it like an illness you’ve survived.”
― Childhood
― Childhood
“Oh oak tree, how they have pruned you.
Now you stand odd and strangely shaped!
You were hacked a hundred times
until you had nothing left but spite and will!
I am like you, so many insults and humiliations
could not shatter my link with life.
And every day I raise my head
beyond countless insults towards new light.
What in me was once gentle, sweet and tender
this world has ridiculed to death.
But my true self cannot be murdered.
I am at peace and reconciled.
I grow new leaves with patience
from branches hacked a hundred times.
In spite of all the pain and sorrow
I'm still in love with this mad, mad world.”
― Bäume: Betrachtungen und Gedichte
Now you stand odd and strangely shaped!
You were hacked a hundred times
until you had nothing left but spite and will!
I am like you, so many insults and humiliations
could not shatter my link with life.
And every day I raise my head
beyond countless insults towards new light.
What in me was once gentle, sweet and tender
this world has ridiculed to death.
But my true self cannot be murdered.
I am at peace and reconciled.
I grow new leaves with patience
from branches hacked a hundred times.
In spite of all the pain and sorrow
I'm still in love with this mad, mad world.”
― Bäume: Betrachtungen und Gedichte
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