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Natalie is Currently Reading

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Gas und Gas Zweiter Teil

by Georg Kaiser

bookshelves: german-language-classics, currently-reading

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Amphitryon

by Heinrich von Kleist

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Leben des Galilei

by Bertolt Brecht

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Natalie’s Quotes

“The saints are the sinners who keep on trying.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

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“People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.”
― Neil Gaiman

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“Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos; the materials must, in the first place, be afforded: it can give form to dark, shapeless substances, but cannot bring into being the substance itself.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein

tags: chaos, creativity, invention, originality, writing

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“If our impulses were confined to hunger, thirst, and desire, we might be nearly free; but now we are moved by every wind that blows and a chance word or scene that that word may convey to us.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

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“It is astonishing just how much of what we are can be tied to the beds we wake up in in the morning, and it is astonishing how fragile that can be.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

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