Autosuggestion

“Wer suchet, der findet Anstößiges, auf das er insgeheim hofft.”
― Elfriede Jelinek, The Piano Teacher

“I am writing with my burnt hand about the nature of fire.”
― Ingeborg Bachmann

“If one is to deal with people on a large scale and say what one thinks, how can one avoid melancholy? I don’t admit to being hopeless, though: only the spectacle is a profoundly strange one; and as the current answers don’t do, one has to grope for a new one, and the process of discarding the old, when one is by no means certain what to put in their place, is a sad one.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Writer's Diary

“Früher hatte der Mensch nur einen Körper und eine Seele. Heute braucht er noch einen Pass dazu, sonst wird er nicht wie ein Mensch behandelt.”
― Stefan Zweig