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“I am a fool with a heart but no brains, and you are a fool with brains but no heart; and we’re both unhappy, and we both suffer.”
― The Idiot
― The Idiot
“One flew east, one flew west, one flew over the cuckoo's nest.”
― One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
― One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
“I learned to recognise the thorough and primitive duality of man; I saw that, of the two natures that contended in the field of my consciousness, even if I could rightly be said to be either, it was only because I was radically both.”
― Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
― Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
“I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.”
― Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend
― Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend
“At a certain place in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, for example, he might feel that he is floating above the earth in a starry dome, with the dream of immortality in his heart; all the stars seem to glimmer around him, and the earth seems to sink ever deeper downwards.”
― Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
― Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
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