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"“Käthe had once asked the boy why, what he had against Jews, how he could possibly wish more on Germany more hate and war. He replied: Excuse me, Frau Kollwitz, but I would like to stand for something. I would like to be there for something.—Now both of them wore swastika armbands. They looked more cheerful than she had ever seen them.
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You know the difference between you and us …? We’re optimists.”" — 14 hours, 40 min ago
"“Käthe had once asked the boy why, what he had against Jews, how he could possibly wish more on Germany more hate and war. He replied: Excuse me, Frau Kollwitz, but I would like to stand for something. I would like to be there for something.—Now both of them wore swastika armbands. They looked more cheerful than she had ever seen them.
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You know the difference between you and us …? We’re optimists.”" — 14 hours, 40 min ago
“I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; Garlands from window to window; Golden chains from star to star ... And I dance.”
― Complete Works
― Complete Works
“To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.”
― Eros the Bittersweet
― Eros the Bittersweet
“I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.”
― A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat
― A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat
“True alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse’.”
― Illuminations
― Illuminations
“A thousand Dreams within me softly burn:
From time to time my heart is like some oak
Whose blood runs golden where a branch is torn.”
― Complete Works
From time to time my heart is like some oak
Whose blood runs golden where a branch is torn.”
― Complete Works
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