Tilly Berendt

“Language has time as its element; all other media have space as their element.”
― Søren Kierkegaard, Either/Or: A Fragment of Life

“I think everyone must love life more than anything else in the world.'
'Love life more than the meaning of it?'
'Yes, certainly. Love it regardless of logic, as you say. Yes, most certainly regardless of logic, for only then will I grasp its meaning. That's what I've been vaguely aware of for a long time. Half your work is done, Ivan: you love life. Now you must try to do the second half and you are saved.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast

“In the deep glens where they lived, all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road