Benjamin Erkenbrack

“The most brightly colored birds sing the worst; the same goes for people.”
― Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

“To truly take the measure of a man, you must observe him in the midst of trial and tribulation-then, from the bottom of their hearts, men say what they believe; the mask is torn away, and what remains cannot deceive.”
― Lucretius

“Angels' kisses must be like this; true paradise is not in heaven but on the lips of one's beloved.”
― Théophile Gautier, Mademoiselle de Maupin

“In so far as I make a world exist as a complex of instruments which I use for the ends of my human reality, I cause myself to be determined in my being by a being who makes the world exist as a complex of instruments for the ends of his reality.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre