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Und wenn es nur nach den Gesetzen der Natur geht, so wie mein Vater immer gesagt hat, dann hat unsere Existenz, das alles hier, schlicht keinen Sinn. Es hat keinen Sinn, dass wir Gedichte schreiben, dass wir malen, dass wir tanzen, dass wir
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“Saying 'I notice you're a nerd' is like saying, 'Hey, I notice that you'd rather be intelligent than be stupid, that you'd rather be thoughtful than be vapid, that you believe that there are things that matter more than the arrest record of Lindsay Lohan. Why is that?' In fact, it seems to me that most contemporary insults are pretty lame. Even 'lame' is kind of lame. Saying 'You're lame' is like saying 'You walk with a limp.' Yeah, whatever, so does 50 Cent, and he's done all right for himself.”
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“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
― The Fault in Our Stars
“Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger.”
― Dubliners
― Dubliners
“How'd you like to gaze at a beer can throughout eternity? It might not be so bad. There'd be nothing to fear.”
― A Scanner Darkly
― A Scanner Darkly
“It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn’t the only person in the world who thought and felt such strange and awful things.”
― Looking for Alaska
― Looking for Alaska
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