“Um sein wahres Ich zu finden, ist es notwendig, alles in Frage zu stellen, was man bei der Geburt vorgefunden hat. Manches davon auch zu verlieren, denn oft lernt man nur im Schmerz, was wirklich zu einem gehört... Es sind die Brüche, in denen man sich erkennt.”
― Vom Ende der Einsamkeit
― Vom Ende der Einsamkeit
“The marks humans leave are too often scars.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
― The Fault in Our Stars
“Thoughts are just a different kind of bacteria, colonizing you. I thought about the gut-brain information axis. Maybe you're already gone. The prisoners run the jail now. Not a person so much as a swarm. Not a bee, but the hive.”
― Turtles All the Way Down
― Turtles All the Way Down
“But I think it is also the relief I feel that those stars are immovable. Nothing you or I could do will ever alter them. They are so much bigger than us. And they will not change within our lifetime. We can succeed or fail, get it right or get it wrong, love and lose the ones we love, and still the Summer Triangle will point south. And in that way, I know everything will be some type of okay—as impossible as that can seem sometimes.”
― Atmosphere
― Atmosphere
“And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual. This is what I am and what I am about.”
― East of Eden
― East of Eden
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