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“He had come to that moment in his age when there occurred to him, with increasing intensity, a question of such overwhelming simplicity that he had no means to face it. He found himself wondering if his life were worth the living; if it had ever been. It was a question, he suspected, that came to all men at one time or another; he wondered if it came to them with such impersonal force as it came to him. The question brought with it a sadness, but it was a general sadness which (he thought) had little to do with himself or with his particular fate; he was not even sure that the question sprang from the most immediate and obvious causes, from what his own life had become. It came, he believed, from the accretion of his years, from the density of accident and circumstance, and from what he had come to understand of them. He took a grim and ironic pleasure from the possibility that what little learning he had managed to acquire had led him to this knowledge: that in the long run all things, even the learning that let him know this, were futile and empty, and at last diminished into a nothingness they did not alter.”
― Stoner
― Stoner
“In die Zeit, welche damals sehr langsam noch verging, sich da und dort in Teichen sammelte, oder, ihres Fließens ganz vergessend, in Tümpeln stand und den Himmel spiegelte, denn wie Tümpel waren ihre so sehr beruhigten Zustände: in diese Zeit floß jetzt der Herbst ein, und noch lange vor einer Verfärbung der Bäume mit einer Veränderung des Luftgeschmacks, und wieder lange vor dieser mit einem gewandelten Licht, wenn man aus einer schattigen Gasse um die Ecke und damit in die Sonne trat.”
― The Waterfalls of Slunj
― The Waterfalls of Slunj
“Die meisten Menschen interessieren einen wirklich nicht, habe ich die ganze Zeit gedacht, fast alle, denen wir begegnen, interessieren uns nicht, sie haben uns nichts zu bieten als ihre Massenarmseligkeit und ihre Massendummheit und langweilen uns dadurch immer und überall und wir haben naturgemäß für sie nicht das geringste übrig.”
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“Leidenschaften sind nichts anderes als Ideen in ihrem ersten Entwicklungsstadium: sie gehören zur Jugend des Herzens, und ein Dummkopf ist derjenige, der meint, von ihnen ein Leben lang erregt zu werden: viele ruhige Flüsse beginnen als rauschende Wasserfälle, doch keiner springt und schäumt bis zum Meer.”
― A Hero of Our Time
― A Hero of Our Time
“Unhappy Europe! Thou shalt perish by the moral insanity of thy children!”
― The Secret Agent
― The Secret Agent
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