“Whenever government assumes to deliver us from the trouble of thinking for ourselves, the only consequences it produces are those of torpor and imbecility.”
― Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and Its Influence on Modern Morals and Happiness
― Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and Its Influence on Modern Morals and Happiness
“Emotions are steep like cliffs, -
please,
step away farther.
Farther
step away, please.”
― Backbone Flute: Selected Poetry
please,
step away farther.
Farther
step away, please.”
― Backbone Flute: Selected Poetry
“Love
for us
is no paradise of arbors —
to us
love tells us, humming,
that the stalled motor
of the heart
has started to work
again.”
―
for us
is no paradise of arbors —
to us
love tells us, humming,
that the stalled motor
of the heart
has started to work
again.”
―
“Everybody is so happy, and no one has a thought for you. And this is what happens to me everywhere and always. Everyone has marked out his own little spot on the Earth, his warm stove, his cup of coffee, his wife, his glass of wine in the evening, and is quite content with that;[...]I don't feel at ease anywhere. It is as if I always arrive a second too late, as if all the world had utterly failed to take me into account.”
― Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts
― Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts
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