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“Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.”
― Shel Silverstein

“Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Zeit ist etwas, das man um so weniger begreift, je mehr man davon erfährt. Man kann ihrer nie sicher sein. Achtet man auf die Zeit, so schleicht sie dahin wie eine Schnecke, aber sobald man sich von etwas anderem ablenken läßt, springt sie davon wie ein Wiesel. Sie ist immer da, aber wenn du sie packen willst, greifst du ins Leere, denn sie ist schon wieder vergangen.”
― Hans Bemmann, Stein und Flöte, und das ist noch nicht alles

“He is ugly and sad... but he is all love.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

“My skin is kind of sort of brownish pinkish yellowish white. My eyes are greyish blueish green, but I'm told they look orange in the night. My hair is reddish blondish brown, but its silver when its wet, and all the colors I am inside have not been invented yet.”
― Shel Silverstein, Where the Sidewalk Ends

“Es sind die kleinen Dinge, die die Welt vergrößern.”
― Gottfried Keller, Die Leute von Seldwyla

“And what would humans be without love?"
RARE, said Death.”
― Terry Pratchett, Sourcery

“Wenn einer in die Irre geht, dann heißt das noch lange nicht, dass er nicht auf dem richtigen Weg ist.”
― Hans Bemmann, Stein und Flöte, und das ist noch nicht alles

“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking...”
― Leo Tolstoy

“He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“Night poured over the desert. It came suddenly, in purple. In the clear air, the stars drilled down out of the sky, reminding any thoughtful watcher that it is in the deserts and high places that religions are generated. When men see nothing but bottomless infinity over their heads they have always had a driving and desperate urge to find someone to put in the way.”
― Terry Pratchett , Jingo

“I sit on a man's back choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am sorry for him and wish to lighten his load by all means possible… except by getting off his back.”
― Leo Tolstoy, What Then Must We Do?

“Alle wesentlichen Dinge sind einfach, wenn man sie erst einmal begriffen hat. Schwierig ist nur der Weg, den man bis dahin gehen muss.”
― Hans Bemmann, Stein und Flöte und das ist noch nicht alles

“Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“He dug so deeply into her sentiments that in search of interest he found love, because by trying to make her love him he ended up falling in love with her. Petra Cotes, for her part, loved him more and more as she felt his love increasing, and that was how in the ripeness of autumn she began to believe once more in the youthful superstition that poverty was the servitude of love. Both looked back then on the wild revelry, the gaudy wealth, and the unbridled fornication as an annoyance and they lamented that it had cost them so much of their lives to find the paradise of shared solitude. Madly in love after so many years of sterile complicity, they enjoyed the miracle of living each other as much at the table as in bed, and they grew to be so happy that even when they were two worn-out people they kept on blooming like little children and playing together like dogs.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

“Du hast deine Furcht überwunden. Das ist weitaus mehr wert, als keine Furcht zu haben. ”
― Hans Bemmann, Stein und Flöte und das ist noch nicht alles

“It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love.”
― Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“How many slams in an old screen door? Depends how loud you shut it. How many slices in a bread? Depends how thin you cut it. How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live 'em. How much love inside a friend? Depends how much you give 'em.”
― Shel Silverstein

“Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but ... life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.”
― Gabriel García Márquez

“Disbelief is more resistant than faith because it is sustained by the senses.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Of Love and Other Demons

“No medicine cures what happiness cannot.”
― Gabriel García Márquez

“[Words] cling to the very core of our memories and lie there in silence until a new desire reawakens them and recharges them with loving energy. That is one of the qualities of love that moves me most, their capacity for transmitting love. Like water, words are a wonderful conductor of energy. And the most powerful, transforming energy is the energy of love.”
― Laura Esquivel, Swift as Desire

“Art is not a mirror held up to reality
but a hammer with which to shape it.”
― Bertolt Brecht

“Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life”
― Bertolt Brecht, Jewish Wife and Other Short Plays: Includes: In Search of Justice; Informer; Elephant Calf; Measures Taken; Exception and the Rule; Salzburg Dance of Death

“The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.”
― Bertolt Brecht, Life of Galileo

“Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around - nobody big, I mean - except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff - I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be.”
― J.D. Salinger

“The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid.”
― J.D. Salinger, Nine Stories

“I was trying to feel some kind of good-bye. I mean I’ve left schools and places I didn’t even know I was leaving them. I hate that. I don’t care if it’s a sad good-bye or a bad good-bye, but when I leave a place I like to know I’m leaving it. If you don’t you feel even worse.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.”
― J. D. Salinger