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Arno Geiger
“Der Gedanke, im Leben vorwärtskommen zu küssen, fühlt sich in unserer Gesellschaft ganz natürlich an. Es ist der Fluch der Moderne: Schau, dass du weiterkommst! [...] Wer sich im Kreis dreht, gilt als Simpel. Dabei: Wer sich im Kreis dreht, macht keineswegs zwangsläufig immer dieselben Erfahrungen, er verfeinert deine Erfahrungen, er vertieft sie mit der Zeit. Vielleicht hat, wer sich im Kreis dreht, Anteil am Unendlichen.
Im Übrigen ist es ein Denkfehler zu meinen, wenn eins ein intensives Leben haben will, müssen Wiederholungen gemieden werden. Wer ein intensives Leben haben will, muss die Wiederholung suchen. Ein Musikinstrument erlerne ich nicht zuletzt durch Wiederholung. Wiederholung ist Beharren und aus dem Beharren entstehen Fähigkeiten. Die sich allmählich ausbildenden Fähigkeiten öffnen den Weg zu Intensität und Tiefe.”
Arno Geiger, Das glückliche Geheimnis

Arno Geiger
“Der Wille zur Logik in der Literatur ist nichts anderes als ein Vorurteil gegen das Leben. [...] Die menschliche Mathematik rechnet auf krummen Wegen.”
Arno Geiger, Das glückliche Geheimnis

Matt Haig
“It is easy to mourn the lives we aren't living. Easy to wish we'd developed other other talents, said yes to different offers. Easy to wish we'd worked harder, loved better, handled our finances more astutely, been more popular, stayed in the band, gone to Australia, said yes to the coffee or done more bloody yoga.
It takes no effort to miss the friends we didn't make and the work we didn't do the people we didn't do and the people we didn't marry and the children we didn't have. It is not difficult to see yourself through the lens of other people, and to wish you were all the different kaleidoscopic versions of you they wanted you to be. It is easy to regret, and keep regretting, ad infinitum, until our time runs out.
But it is not lives we regret not living that are the real problem. It is the regret itself. It's the regret that makes us shrivel and wither and feel like our own and other people's worst enemy.
We can't tell if any of those other versions would of been better or worse. Those lives are happening, it is true, but you are happening as well, and that is the happening we have to focus on.”
Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

Ocean Vuong
“When does a war end? When can I say your name and have it mean only your name and not what you left behind?”
Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

Ocean Vuong
“In Vietnamese, the word for missing someone and remembering them is the same: nhớ. Sometimes, when you ask me over the phone, Có nhớ mẹ không? I flinch, thinking you meant, Do you remember me?

I miss you more than I remember you.”
Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

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