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“My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.”
― William Golding

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

“If I know what love is, it is because of you.”
― Hermann Hesse

“Als die Erde erschaffen wurde, da waren es die Katzen, die als die ersten Lebewesen das Paradies bevölkerten. Und als die Nacht gemalt worden war und die Sterne in grellen Blitzen geboren wurden da verfolgten die Katzen das Schauspiel, und das Licht, das sie sahen, brannte sich auf ewig in ihre Augen. Deshalb können die Katzen im Dunkeln sehen, und deshalb leuchten ihre Augen wie Edelsteine in der Schwärze der Nacht. Es ist das Licht der ersten Sterne, das noch immer in ihnen gefangen ist.”
― Christoph Marzi

“Und dann erscholl der Ruf, um dessentwillen Menschen sich den Leib zerschunden und ihre Seelen verkauft haben, der Ruf, der in seiner Vermessenheit selbst den nach Gottes Namen übertönt, der Ruf, der alle Möglichkeiten des Lebens öffnen kann oder zum Tode führt. "Gold!" rief Anni.”
― Richard Kennedy

“When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

“Die Welt ist gierig, und manchmal umschließen Nebel unsere Herzen, bis wir uns nicht einmal mehr daran erinnern können, wann unsere Träume zu sterben begannen.”
― Christoph Marzi, Lumen

“Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge

“We must become so alone, so utterly alone, that we withdraw into our innermost self. It is a way of bitter suffering. But then our solitude is overcome, we are no longer alone, for we find that our innermost self is the spirit, that it is God, the indivisible. And suddenly we find ourselves in the midst of the world, yet undisturbed by its multiplicity, for our innermost soul we know ourselves to be one with all being.”
― Hermann Hesse

“I live in my dreams — that's what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That's the difference.”
― Herman Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

“Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.”
― Hermann Hesse

“Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper,
That we may record our emptiness.”
― Kahlil Gibran

“We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.”
― Kahlil Gibran

“Ja, in einem Waisenhaus wird viel geweint.
Andere versuchen, Gesichter zu sehen, die sie einst gekannt haben oder niemals kannten, und wenn die gebohnerten Gänge lautlos und verlassen liegen, schien es in ihnen zu spuken und von Geistern zu beben, die suchten und selber gesucht wurden. Sehnsüchte und verblasste Erinnerungen trieben hin und her, Gespenster hockten im Wartezimmer auf harten Stühlen, unsichtbare Spielkameraden schliefen unter den Betten, und hinter jeder Ecke konnte eine Fee warten oder ein geflügeltes Roß.
Wünsche wirbelten so dicht wie Blütenstaub durch die Luft.
Alles war möglich. ”
― Richard Kennedy

“The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
And I must follow, if I can,
Pursuing it with eager feet,
Until it joins some larger way
Where many paths and errands meet.
And whither then? I cannot say”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“„Weitaus am liebsten aber wäre ich Zauberer geworden. Dies war die tiefste innigste gefühlte Richtung meiner Triebe, eine gewisse Unzufriedenheit mit dem, was man die Wirklichkeit nannte und was mir zuzeiten lediglich wie eine alberne Vereinbarung der Erwachsenen erschien; eine gewisse bald spöttische Ablehnung dieser Wirklichkeit war mir früh geläufig, und der brennende Wunsch sie zu verzaubern, zu verwandeln, zu steigern.”
― Hermann Hesse

“It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.”
― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

“It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.”
― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes

“The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle; Corrections And Editor Edgar W. Smith; Illustrators, The Hound of the Baskervilles

“It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle

“The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.”
― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

“Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs, and and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and leading to the most outre results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Complete Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

“What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is what can you make people believe you have done.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet

“We the mortals touch the metals,
the wind, the ocean shores, the stones,
knowing they will go on, inert or burning,
and I was discovering, naming all the these things:
it was my destiny to love and say goodbye.”
― Pablo Neruda, Still Another Day

“In this part of the story I am the one who
dies, the only one, and I will die of love because I love you,
because I love you, Love, in fire and in blood.”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

“Damn you, spoilt creature; I shan’t make you love me any the more by giving myself away like this.”
― Vita Sackville-West, The Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf

“It's funny, but certain faces seem to go in and out of style. You look at old photographs and everybody has a certain look to them, almost as if they're related. Look at pictures from ten years later and you can see that there's a new kind of face starting to predominate, and that the old faces are fading away and vanishing, never to be seen again.”
― Alan Moore, Watchmen

“Home is not where you live but where they understand you.”
― Christian Morgenstern

“Some nights the sky wept stars that quickly floated and disappeared into the darkness before our wishes could meet them. ”
― Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

“The past beats inside me like a second heart.”
― John Banville, The Sea