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“Rosencrantz: Shouldn't we be doing something--constructive?
Guildenstern: What did you have in mind? ... A short, blunt human pyramid...?”
― Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Guildenstern: What did you have in mind? ... A short, blunt human pyramid...?”
― Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
“After an early breakfast of black coffee – ‘concentrated sunshine’, as Humboldt called it – he worked all day and in the evening went on his usual tour of salons until 2 a.m. He”
― The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
― The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
“Humboldt wrote that nature had to be experienced through feelings”
― The Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of Science
― The Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of Science
“Ich fühle, wie ich langsam zu einem Mörder werde. Mein Glaube an die Humanität ist machtlos. Und weil ich es weiß, bin ich ein Säufer geworden.”
― The Visit: A Tragi-Comedy
― The Visit: A Tragi-Comedy
“Es gibt ein Mittel gegen die Einsamkeit, die einen plötzlich in einer fremden Stadt überfällt: etwas kaufen: eine Ansichtskarte, einen Kaugummi nur, einen Bleistift oder Zigaretten: etwas in die Hand bekommen, teilnehmen am Leben dieser Stadt, indem man etwas kauft [...]”
― Irisches Tagebuch
― Irisches Tagebuch
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