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“Caring too much for objects can destroy you. Only—if you care for a thing enough, it takes on a life of its own, doesn’t it? And isn’t the whole point of things—beautiful things—that they connect you to some larger beauty?”
― The Goldfinch
― The Goldfinch
“Was auch immer geschieht: Nie dürft Ihr so tief sinken,
von dem Kakao, durch den man Euch zieht, auch noch zu trinken!”
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von dem Kakao, durch den man Euch zieht, auch noch zu trinken!”
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“Do not read as children do to enjoy themselves, or, as the ambitious do to educate themselves. No, read to live.”
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“Just when the gods had ceased to be, and the Christ had not yet come, there was a unique moment in history, between Cicero and Marcus Aurelius, when man stood alone.”
― The Letters, 1830-1880
― The Letters, 1830-1880
“Es ist sicher gut, dass die Welt nur das schöne Werk, nicht auch seine Ursprünge, nicht seine Enstehungsbedingungen kennt; denn die Kenntnis der Quellen, aus denen dem Künstler Eingebung floss, würde sie oftmals verwirren, abschrecken und so die Wirkungen des Vortrefflichen aufheben.”
― Death in Venice
― Death in Venice
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