Die Geisha
by
Wir leben unser Leben wie Wasser, das einen Hang hinabfließt, gehen mehr oder weniger in eine Richtung, bis wir plötzlich auf etwas stoßen, das uns zwingt, einen neuen Kurs einzuschlagen.
“We dream of travels throughout the universe: is not the universe within us? We do not know the depths of our spirit. The mysterious path leads within. In us, or nowhere, lies eternity with its worlds, the past and the future.”
― Pollen and Fragments: Selected Poetry and Prose
― Pollen and Fragments: Selected Poetry and Prose
“Old Prague was a story-book city caked in grime: ancient, soot-blackened. History lived in every detail: in the deerstalker rooftops and the blue-sparking trams. He wandered the streets in disbelief, photographing everything, images from Kafka crowding into his head. With the turn of every corner it came back to him: the special frisson you get behind enemy lines.”
― Zoia's Gold
― Zoia's Gold
“Kennt ihr Deutschland?
Im Süden die Berge
Im Norden das Meer
Und dazwischen:
Teer.
Aber wirklich nur Teer?
Es gibt doch noch mehr!
Ja, genau.
Stau.”
― Die Känguru-Chroniken
Im Süden die Berge
Im Norden das Meer
Und dazwischen:
Teer.
Aber wirklich nur Teer?
Es gibt doch noch mehr!
Ja, genau.
Stau.”
― Die Känguru-Chroniken
“It was through this odor that he saw the museums and discovered the mystery and the profusion of baroque genius which filled Prague with its gold magnificence. The altars, which glowed softly in the darkness, seemed borrowed from the coppery sky, the misty sunlight so frequent over the city. The glistening scrolls and spirals, the elaborate setting that looked as if it were cut out of gold paper, so touching in its resemblance to the creches made for children at Christmas, the grandiose and grotesque baroque perspectives affected Mersault as a kind of infantile, feverish, and overblown romanticism by which men protect themselves against their own demons. The god worshipped here was the god man fears and honors, not the god who laughs with man before the warm frolic sea and sun.”
― A Happy Death
― A Happy Death
“We are nothing without passion.”
― The History of Bees
― The History of Bees
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