Katie

“And he will also find the little god whom girls like best: beside the well he lies, still, with his eyes shut. Verily, in bright daylight he fell asleep, the sluggard! Did he chase after the butterflies too much?... He may cry and weep - but he is laughable even when he weeps. And with tears in his eyes he shall ask you for a dance and I myself will sing a song for his dance: a dancing and mocking song on the spirit of gravity... (p.108 - The Dancing Song)”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“Он любил и страдал. Он любил деньги и страдал от их недостатка.”
― Ilia Ilf, The Twelve Chairs

“I've often heard it said a preacher
might learn with a comedian for a teacher.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, Part One

“.. и уши развешивали слушать от старых лагерников "как надо в лагере жить."
А как надо жить (и как умереть) мы обязаны знать и без всякого лагеря.”
― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956