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"'Nee, u heeft geen Turks gesproken. Wij, u en ik, hebben dezelfde taal, dezelfde woorden gebruikt. Maar wat hebben wij, u en ik, voor schuld als woorden op zichzelf leeg zijn? Leeg, mijn beste. U vult ze, als u ze tegen mij zegt, met uw betekenis; en als ik ze in mij opneem, vul ik ze onvermijdelijk met mijn betekenis. We hebben geloofd elkaar te begrijpen; we hebben elkaar helemaal niet begrepen.'" Apr 26, 2025 11:26AM

 
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Mitch Albom
“If you hold back on the emotions--if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them--you can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid. You're afraid of the pain, you're afraid of the grief. You're afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails. But by throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over your heard even, you experience them fully and completely.”
Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson

Franz Kafka
“Es ist so wie wenn einer fünf niedrige Treppenstufen hinaufzusteigen hat und ein zweiter nur eine Treppenstufe, die aber so hoch ist wie jene fünf zusammen; der Erste wird nicht nur die fünf bewältigen, sondern noch hunderte und tausende weitere, er wird ein großes und sehr anstrengendes Leben geführt haben, aber keine der Stufen, die er erstiegen hat, wird für ihn eine solche Bedeutung gehabt haben, wie für den Zweiten jene eine, erste, hohe, für alle seine Kräfte unmöglich zu ersteigende Stufe, zu der er nicht hinauf und über die er natürlich auch nicht hinauskommt.”
Franz Kafka, Letter to His Father

Russell Hoban
“A turtle doesn't have to decide every morning whether to keep on bothering, it just carries on. Maybe that's why man kills everything: envy.”
Russell Hoban, Turtle Diary

Franz Kafka
“It is as if a person were a prisoner, and he had not only the intention to escape, which would perhaps be attainable, but also, and indeed simultaneously, the intention to rebuild the prison as a pleasure dome for himself. But if he escapes, he cannot rebuild, and if he rebuilds, he cannot escape.”
Franz Kafka, Letter to His Father

Jente Posthuma
“En daarvoor?' vroeg hij.
'Toen sliep ik ook wel slecht, maar dat was omdat ik te veel alleen was en later, toen ik niet meer alleen was, omdat mijn vriend in een ander tempo ademhaalt dan ik.”
Jente Posthuma, Mensen zonder uitstraling

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