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Ray Bradbury
“That's life for you," said McDunn. "Someone always waiting for someone who never comes home. Always someone loving some thing more than that thing loves them. And after a while you want to destroy whatever that thing is, so it can't hurt you no more.”
Ray Bradbury, The Fog Horn

Rainer Maria Rilke
“Besser vielleicht, du wärest in der Dunkelheit geblieben und dein unabgegrenztes Herz hätte versucht, all des Ununterscheidbaren schweres Herz zu sein.”
Rainer Maria Rilke, Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge

Edmund White
“I'd learned to feel nostalgia for my own youth while I was living it.”
Edmund White

Marlen Haushofer
“Es gibt Stunden, in denen ich mich freue auf eine Zeit, in der es nichts mehr geben wird, woran ich mein Herz hängen könnte. Ich bin müde davon, daß mir doch alles wieder genommen wird. Es gibt keinen Ausweg, denn solange es im Wald ein Geschöpf gibt, das ich lieben könnte, werde ich es tun; und wenn es einmal wirklich nichts mehr gibt, werde ich aufhören zu leben. Wären alle Menschen von meiner Art gewesen, hätte es nie eine Wand gegeben, und der alte Mann müßte nicht versteinert vor seinem Brunnen liegen. Aber ich verstehe, warum die anderen immer in der Übermacht waren. Lieben und für ein anderes Wesen sorgen ist ein sehr mühsames Geschäft und viel schwerer, als zu töten und zu zerstören. Ein Kind aufzuziehen dauert zwanzig Jahre, es zu töten zehn Sekunden.”
Marlen Haushofer, The Wall

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“But she had not had a bold epiphany and there was no cause; it was simply that layer after layer of discontent had settled in her, and formed a mass that now propelled her. She did not tell him this, because it would hurt him to know she had felt that way for a while, that her relationship with him was like being content in a house but always sitting by the window and looking out.”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah

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