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“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“I pop a beautiful sentence into my mouth and suck it like a fruit drop.”
― Bohumil Hrabal

“A oči so vse na Julki. In vse klopi zadržujejo dih, da bi bile vse oči še bolj tesno pri njem. Kakor da bodo iz njih, iz oči, vsak hip zaplavale otroške dlani kot golobje peruti in privzdignile njeno telo in mu zamanjšale bolečine. Njene oči pa so žametno in vlažno mehke, ker se njena stopala ne dotikajo poda. Rožnat trak, ki povezuje kiti, pa čepi na kavlju kot metulj z razprtimi krili.”
― Boris Pahor, Grmada v pristanu

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

“Wenn du sprichst,
Wacht mein buntes Herz auf.

Alle Vögel üben sich
Auf deinen Lippen.

Immerblau streut deine Stimme
Über den Weg;

Wo du erzählst, wird Himmel.

Deine Worte sind aus Lied geformt,
Ich traure, wenn du schweigst.

Singen hängt überall an dir-
Wie du wohl träumen magst?”
― Else Lasker-Schüler, Gedichte 1902 - 1943.

“I have never voted in my life... I have always known and understood that the idiots are in a majority so it's certain they will win.”
― Louis-Ferdinand Céline

“No book worth its salt is meant to put you to sleep, it's meant to make you jump out of your bed in your underwear and run and beat the author's brains out.”
― Bohumil Hrabal, Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age

“The easiest person to deceive is one’s own self.”
― Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton

“Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

“Du weißt doch, was ich von der Liebe halte. Wäre sie eine Fahne, ich würde sie erobern oder für sie fallen.”
― Else Lasker-Schüler, Mein Herz: Ein Liebesroman mit Bildern und wirklich lebenden Menschen. Mit Zeichnungen der Autorin aus der Ausgabe von 1912

“Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

“A decent human being is ashamed at being somebody's boss!”
― Arno Schmidt, Scenes from the Life of a Faun: A Short Novel

“Parents, teachers, government - they all teach you how to live the dreary, deadening life of a slave, but nobody teaches you how to live normally.”
― Ryū Murakami, In the Miso Soup

“I've given up listening to people. What can they tell me that is so much more to the point than what I've always known? All the mistakes in my life came from accepting advice.”
― Curt Siodmak, Gabriel's Body

“Chance is the modern word for Holy Spirit.”
― Léon Bloy, The Woman Who Was Poor

“It's better to break one's heart than to do nothing with it.”
― Margaret Kennedy

“In a world of infinite choices, choosing one thing is the revolutionary act. Imposing that restriction is actually liberating.”
― Priya Parker, The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters

“Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all one's life.”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening, and Selected Stories

“An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.”
― Niels Bohr

“In relation to law I am doubtful whether, even at the present time, science has fairly begun.”
― H.G. Wells, The World Of William Clissold: Volume II: v. 2