Rogier Paeps

“ You put together two people who have not been put together before. Sometimes it is like that first attempt to harness a hydrogen balloon to a fire balloon: do you prefer crash and burn, or burn and crash?
But sometimes it works, and something new is made, and the world is changed. Then, at some point, sooner or later, for this reason or that, one of them is taken away. and what is taken away is greater than the sum of what was there. this may not be mathematically possible; but it is emotionally possible.”
― Julian Barnes, Levels of Life

“Tussen droom en daad staan wetten in de weg en praktische bezwaren.”
― Willem Elsschot

“all cowardice comes from not loving or not loving well, which is the same thing.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Ik heb al zoveel over boord gegooid, dat ik wel eens kapseizen kon bij gebrek aan zwaarte.”
― Willem Elsschot, Het dwaallicht