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“...a new force given to individual initiatives, a need to smash things up, to leap over fences, to break laws – all this, at the start, made the war acceptable. It was confused with freedom, and discipline was then accepted in the belief that it was lacking.”
― Fear
― Fear
“Let me indicate here how men can prove that their words are their own: let them put their preaching into practice.”
― Letters from a Stoic
― Letters from a Stoic
“Words ruin one’s thoughts, paper makes them ridiculous, and even while one is still glad to get something ruined and something ridiculous down on paper, one’s memory manages to lose hold of even this ruined and ridiculous something. Paper can turn an enormity into a triviality, an absurdity.”
― The Lime Works
― The Lime Works
“Love is a deadly poison injected by
black vipers, who writhe in the caves
of Hell. The Poison flows there,
spreads, and falls like dew.
Thirsty souls drink it.
And are intoxicated for a minute,
sober again for a year,
then dead for a century long.”
― Love Letters in the Sand: The Love Poems of Khalil Gibran
black vipers, who writhe in the caves
of Hell. The Poison flows there,
spreads, and falls like dew.
Thirsty souls drink it.
And are intoxicated for a minute,
sober again for a year,
then dead for a century long.”
― Love Letters in the Sand: The Love Poems of Khalil Gibran
“But were ideals, after all, meant to be realised? No, a thousand times no! We might long for the stars, but should we ever reach them? No, hope, not realization, was the most beautiful thing in life: "L'espérance, toute trompeuse qu'elle soit, sert au moins à nous mener à la fin de la vie par un chemin agréable". La Rochefoucauld said that...”
― Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family
― Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family
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