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Mahmoud Darwish
“You ask: What is the meaning of "homeland"?

They will say: The house, the mulberry tree, the chicken coop, the beehive, the smell of bread, and the first sky.

You ask: Can a word of eight letters be big enough for all of these, yet too small for us?”
― Mahmoud Darwish, In the Presence of Absence

“Was für eine armselige Gestalt er abgibt. Steht da mit verzerrtem Gesicht, seine eine Hand hält die, mit der er gerade die Türscheibe eingeschlagen hat. Es gelingt ihm nicht, mich anzuschauen. Ob er blutet, frage ich ihn. Natürlich blutet er. Ich sehe ja überall die Spritzer. Schon als das erste Wort meinen Mund verlässt, weiß ich um die Unnötigkeit meiner Frage. Aber mehr Empathie schaffe ich gerade nicht. Er widert mich zu sehr an. Mein Mitleid ist schon lange aufgebraucht.”
― Paulina Czienskowski, Ein Manifest gegen die emotionale Verkümmerung
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Friedrich Nietzsche
“Making plans. - To make plans and project designs brings with it many good sensations; and whoever had the strength to be nothing but a forger of plans his whole life long would be a very happy man: but he would occasionally have to make a rest from this activity by carrying out a plan - and then comes the vexation and the sobering up.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, A Nietzsche Reader

Edna O'Brien
“Mr Berry: We are not childhood sweethearts, we are not in the first flush of youth, we are not Romeo and Juliet.
Mrs Berry: No ... we are the warring what's-their-names families of Romeo and Juliet.”
― Edna O'Brien, Haunted

Wim Wenders
“That's how it begins, making a film, writing a book, painting a picture, composing a tune, generally creating something.
You have a wish.
You wish that something might exist, and then you work on it until it does.”
― Wim Wenders, The Logic of Images: Essays and Conversations

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