Jens Gärtner

“Literature is my Utopia”
― Helen Keller

“And there is another feeling that is a great consolation in poverty. I believe everyone who has been hard up has experienced it. It is a feeling of relief, almost of pleasure, at knowing yourself at last genuinely down and out. You have talked so often of going to the dogs—and well, here are the dogs, and you have reached them, and you can stand it. It takes off a lot of anxiety.”
― George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London

“«La filosofía honesta no pretender explicar sino circunscribir el misterio».”
― Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Escolios a Un Texto Implicito: Obra Completa

“When asked, "Why do you always wear black?", he said, "I am mourning for my life.”
― Anton Chekhov