“Life is always frightful. We cannot help it and we are responsible all the same. One's born and at once one is guilty.”
― Steppenwolf
― Steppenwolf
“All interpretation, all psychology, all attempts to make things comprehensible, require the medium of theories, mythologies, and lies.”
― Steppenwolf
― Steppenwolf
“He really had been through death, but he had returned because he could not bear the solitude.”
― One Hundred Years of Solitude
― One Hundred Years of Solitude
“For last year's words belong to last year's language
And next year's words await another voice.
And to make an end is to make a beginning."
(Little Gidding)”
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And next year's words await another voice.
And to make an end is to make a beginning."
(Little Gidding)”
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“How absurd these words are, such as beast and beast of prey. One should not speak of animals in that way. They may be terrible sometimes, but they're much more right than men...They're never in any embarrassment. They always know what to do and how to behave themselves. They don't flatter and they don't intrude. They don't pretend. They are as they are, like stones or flowers or stars in the sky.”
― Steppenwolf
― Steppenwolf
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