Rogier Paeps

“Doen alsof' iets niet is wat het is, maar 'iets anders' misschien zijn mensen die dat kunnen 'gelukkig', rustig en zonder angst.”
― Jeroen Brouwers, Bezonken rood

“From now on, he wrote, we must always take into account our knowledge that we can destroy ourselves at will, with all our history and perhaps life on earth itself. Nothing stops us but our own free choosing. If we want to survive, we have to decide to live. Thus, he offered a philosophy designed for a species that had just scared the hell out of itself, but that finally felt ready to grow up and take responsibility.”
― Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café

“For we have thought the longer thoughts
And gone the shorter way.
And we have danced to devils' tunes, Shivering home to pray;
To serve one master in the night,
Another in the day.”
― Ernest Hemingway, 88 Poems

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