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“And so being young
and dipped in folly,
I fell in love
with melancholy.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“Als Körper ist jeder Mensch eins, als Selle nie.”
― Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf

“He stood up and took off the dressing gown, the skullcap, the slippers. He took off the linen trousers and shirt. He took off his head like a toupee, took off his collarbones like shoulder straps, took off his rib cage like a hauberk. He took off his hips and his legs, he took off his arms like gauntlets and threw them in a corner. What was left of him gradually dissolved, hardly coloring the air.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Invitation to a Beheading

“I would say, some people are like constellations that only touch the earth for a season.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe