“Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.”
― East of Eden
― East of Eden
“There's more beauty in truth, even if it is dreadful beauty.”
― East of Eden
― East of Eden
“When a man says he does not want to speak of something he usually means he can think of nothing else.”
― East of Eden
― East of Eden
“He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.”
― Love in the Time of Cholera
― Love in the Time of Cholera
“If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.”
― Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend
― Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend
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