Aniki

“Drum lest mit Maß, doch lest genug,
Dann wird's euch wohl ergehen.
Bloß Bücher fressen macht nicht klug.
Man muss sie auch verstehen.”
― Mascha Kaléko

“I do understand that you can look into someone’s eyes,” I heard myself saying, “and suddenly know that life will be impossible without them. Know that their voice can make your heart miss a beat and that their company is all your happiness can ever desire and that their absence will leave your soul alone, bereft and lost.”
― Bernard Cornwell, The Winter King

“Between killing and dying there's a third way: live”
― Christa Wolf, Kassandra

“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods