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“Alles Mögliche kann einem im Leben passieren, und vor allem nichts. Manchmal kommt es mir seltsam vor, dass ich jemals versucht habe, glücklich zu werden. Der Mensch hat eine Vorliebe für Tragik, eine Voreinstellung, die sich im Laufe der Evolution bewährt hat. Man scheut das Risiko stärker, als man das Glück sucht, denn Verluste tun mehr weh, als Gewinne Freude bereiten. Mit jedem Jahr, das verstreicht, wird die Lage aussichtsloser, und am Ende kann man gar nicht fassen, dass DAS alles gewesen sein soll.”
― Die Zunge Europas
― Die Zunge Europas
“But secretly I knew I had been transformed, moved by the revalation that human beings create art, that to be an artist was to see what others could not.”
― Just Kids
― Just Kids
“Some people bring out the worst in you, others bring out the best, and then there are those remarkably rare, addictive ones who just bring out the most. Of everything.
They make you feel so alive that you'd follow them straight into hell, just to keep getting your fix.”
― Shadowfever
They make you feel so alive that you'd follow them straight into hell, just to keep getting your fix.”
― Shadowfever
“What will happen to us?" I asked. "There will always be us," he answered.”
― Just Kids
― Just Kids
“There’s a Japanese phrase that I like: koi no yokan. It doesn’t mean love at first sight. It’s closer to love at second sight. It’s the feeling when you meet someone that you’re going to fall in love with them. Maybe you don’t love them right away, but it’s inevitable that you will.”
― The Sun Is Also a Star
― The Sun Is Also a Star
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