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“Ihr Verstand, stark genug, in ihrer sonderbaren Lage nicht zu reißen, gab sich ganz unter der großen, heiligen und unerklärlichen Einrichtung der Welt gefangen.”
― Heinrich von kleist, Die Marquise von O... / Das Erdbeben in Chili

“Think [...] of the world that you carry within you, and call this thinking whatever you like. Whether it is memory of your own childhood or longing for you own future – just be attnetive towards what rises up inside you, and place it above everything that you notice round about.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“I breathed in Dad's smoke so that his cares would become mine. After that, I said a quick prayer to God that he wouldn't give me cancer from the cigarette smoke [...].”
― Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, The Discomfort of Evening

“I’m beginning to have more and more doubts about whether I find God nice enough to want to go and talk to Him. I’ve discovered that there are two ways of losing your belief: some people lose God when they find themselves; some people lose God when they lose themselves. I think I’ll belong to that second group.”
― Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, The Discomfort of Evening