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Judd Winick
“Hey, it's going to be hard to learn a great many things about me, but one I'll you for free...
I am no one's son.”
― Judd Winick, Batman: Under the Red Hood

Noor Naga
“Men love to save me. Men love to save me from other men.”
― Noor Naga, If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English

Ágota Kristóf
“Il y a quelqu'un que je n'ai encore jamais eu envie de tuer.
C'est toi.
Tu peux marcher dans les rues, tu peux boire et marcher dans les rues, je ne te tuerai pas.
N'aie pas peur. La ville est sans danger. Le seul danger dans la ville, c'est moi.
Je marche, je marche dans les rues, je tue.
Mais toi, tu n'as rien à craindre.
Si je te suis, c'est parce que j'aime le rythme de tes pas. Tu titubes. C'est beau. On pourrait dire que tu boites. Et que tu es bossu. Tu ne l'es pas vraiment. De temps en temps tu te redresses, et tu marches droit. Mais moi, je t'aime dans les heures avancées de la nuit, quand tu es faible, quand tu trébuches, quand tu te voûtes.
Je te suis, tu trembles. De froid ou de peur. Il fait chaud pourtant.
Jamais, presque jamais, peut-être jamais il n'avait fait si chaud dans notre ville.
Et de quoi pourrais-tu avoir peur?
De moi?
Je ne suis pas ton ennemi. Je t'aime.
Et personne d'autre ne pourrait te faire du mal.
N'aie pas peur. je suis là. Je te protège.
Pourtant, je souffre aussi.
Mes larmes - grosses gouttes de pluie - me coulent sur le visage. La nuit me voile. La lune m'éclaire. Les nuages me cachent. Le vent me déchire. J'ai une sorte de tendresse pour toi. Cela m'arrive parfois. Tres rarement.
Pourquoi pour toi? Je n'en sais rien.
Je veux te suivre très loin, partout, longtemps.
Je veux te voir souffrir encore plus.
Je veux que tu en aies assez de tout le reste.
Je veux que tu viennes me supplier de te prendre.
Je veux que tu me désires. Que tu aies envie de moi, que tu m'aimes, que tu m'appelles.
Alors, je te prendrai dans mes bras, je te serrerai sur mon coeur, tu seras mon enfant, mon amant, mon amour.
Je t'emporterai.
Tu avais peur de naître, et maintenant tu as peur de mourir.
Tu as peur de tout.
Il ne faut pas avoir peur.
Il y a simplement une grande roue qui tourne. Elle s'appelle Éternité.
C'est moi qui fais tourner la grande roue.
Tu ne dois pas avoir peur de moi.
Ni de la grande roue.
La seule chose qui puisse faire peur, qui puisse faire mal, c'est la vie, et tu la connais déjà.”
― Ágota Kristóf

C.G. Jung
“Thereforeonyourjourneybesuretotakegoldencupsfull of the sweet drink oflife, red wine, and give it to dead matter, so that it can win life back The dead matter will change into black serpents. Do not be frightened, the serpents will immediately put out the sun of your days, and a night with wonderful will-o'-the-wisps will come over YOU. 140
Take pains to waken the dead. Dig deep mines and throw in sacrificial gifts, so that they reach the dead. Reflect in good heart upon evil, this is the way to the ascent. But before the ascent, everything is night and Hell.
. What do you think of the essence of Hell? Hell is when the depths come to you with all that you no longer are or are not yet capable of Hell is when you can no longer attain what you could attain. Hell is when you must thinlc and feel and do everything that you know you do not want. Hell is when you know that your havingtoisalsoawantingto,andthatyouyourselfareresponsible for it. Hell is when you know that everything serious that you have planned with yourself is also laughable, that everything fine
is also brutal, that everything good is also bad, that everything high is also low, and that everything pleasant is also shameful.
But the deepest Hell is when you realize that Hell is also no Hell, but a cheerful Heaven, not a Heaven in itself, but in this respect a Heaven, and in that respect a Hell.
That is the ambiguity of the God: he is born from a dark ambiguity and rises to a bright ambiguity. Unequivocalness is simplicityandleadstodeath.141Butambiguityisthewayoflife.142 If the left foot does not move, then the right one does, and you move. The God wills this.143
You say: the Christian God is unequivocal, he is 10ve.l44 But what is more ambiguous than love? Love is the way of life, but your love is only on the way oflife ifyou have a left and a right.
Nothing is easier than to play at ambiguity and nothing is more difficult than living ambiguity. He who plays is a child; his God is old and dies. He who lives is awakened; his God is young and goes on. He who plays hides from the inner death. He who lives feels the going onward and immortality. So leave the play to the players. Let fall what wants to fall; if you stop it, it will sweep you away. There is a true love that does not concern itself with neighbors.”
― Carl Jung

Christa Wolf
“She is sensitive. She does not see the world as it is. She’s a bit up in the clouds. She cannot fit in.”
― Christa Wolf, Cassandra

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