Jens Gärtner

“Memory says, 'I did that.' Pride replies, 'I could not have done that.' Eventually, memory yields.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“La oscuridad de un texto no es defecto cuando lo que dice sólo puede decirse oscuramente.”
― Nicolás Gómez Dávila

“All truth is simple ... is that not doubly a lie?”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“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