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""Es ist furchtbar leicht, am Tag über alles erhaben zu sein, aber nachts, mein Gott, ist es was ganz anderes."" — Apr 28, 2025 01:18PM
""Es ist furchtbar leicht, am Tag über alles erhaben zu sein, aber nachts, mein Gott, ist es was ganz anderes."" — Apr 28, 2025 01:18PM
“Death is always on the way, but the fact that you don't know when it will arrive seems to take away from the finiteness of life. It's that terrible precision that we hate so much. But because we don't know, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens a certain number of times, and a very small number, really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, some afternoon that's so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more. Perhaps not even. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless.”
― The Sheltering Sky
― The Sheltering Sky
“Erst im Unglück weiß man wahrhaft, wer man ist.”
― Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman
― Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman
“Sie fühlte sich sehr jung; gleichzeitig unaussprechlich betagt. Sie schnitt wie ein Messer durch alles; war gleichzeitig außerhalb und sah zu. Sie hatte eine nicht endende Empfindung, während sie die Droschken beobachtete, draußen zu sein, draußen, weit draußen auf See, und allein; sie hatte immer das Gefühl, es sei sehr, sehr gefährlich, auch nur einen Tag zu leben.”
― Mrs. Dalloway
― Mrs. Dalloway
“Ein Mensch kann einsam sein, obwohl er von vielen geliebt wird, wenn er nicht für einen Menschen 'der Liebste' ist.”
― Anne Frank Gesamtausgabe: Das Tagebuch | Die Kurzgeschichten
― Anne Frank Gesamtausgabe: Das Tagebuch | Die Kurzgeschichten
“Alle glücklichen Familien gleichen einander. Jede unglückliche Familie ist auf ihre eigene Art unglücklich.”
― Anna Karenina
― Anna Karenina
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