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"But if man has lost the need for poetry, will he notice when it disappears?"

Where does the self begin and end?

The democratic convulsion of laughter!

Laughter is the most democratic of all the facial expressions ....a bust of a laughing Julius Ceaser is unthinkable .. ..the absence of will and reason

"On Europe's dial, another hour had struck, shame had disappeared."

"Midnight had struck on the dial of European art."

"On March 22nd, Geothe lay dying"

History is as light as individual human life, unbearably light, light as a feather, as dust, swirling into the air, as whatever will not exit tomorrow.

What happens but once might as well have not had happened at all.

Questions that have no answers are the best as they push humans to explore the impossible.

And Sabina? What had come over her? Nothing..... her drama was not a drama of heaviness but of lightness... what fell to her was not a burden but an unbearable lightness of being..

Noise masked as music!

"Being in a foreign country means walking on a tightrope high above the ground without the net afforded a person by the country where he has his family and friends and where he can easily say what he has to say in a language which he has known from childhood."

"Without realising it, the individual composes their life according to the laws of beauty even in the times of greatest distress.... "
Anna Karenina could've chosen another way to die, but the dark beauty of the motif of death by train was just too beautiful to miss no matter how novelistic!

His outsider's status raised him above the rest. Something else raised him above the others as well. He had an open book on his table.... in Teresa's eyes books were the emblem of a secret brotherhood.

Her guilty conscience was as vague as the original sin.

"And he said to his (goddess) wife, "all men are deceivers, even you he will try to deceive."

"It was strange how sometimes scenes one has never witnessed could appear before mind's eye more profoundly than memories from actual life"

"Must one be a Sultan to understand that men, in the four corners and seven climes of the world, all resembled one another."

"When we are old we all look for more symmetry, even in the stories we read."

"To see everything as connected with everything else is the addiction of our time."

The curse of black race is God's curse but the curse of the white race is the black man who will be forever God's chosen own because He once cursed him.

"About them hangs a knot of amber hair, Wrapped in curls as fierce as Achilles' was"

Herein may it profit me that he is the son of Jove, I will stand by him and, that his shafts may fly from string unerring, I’ll poise them with my hand, guide the madman’s weapons, and so at last be on the side of Hercules in the fray. When he has done this crime, then let his father admit those hands to heaven!

Dis whatever thou hast left; hateful Crime shall come and reckless Impiety, stained with kindred blood, Error, and Madness, armed ever against itself – this, this be the minister of my smarting wrath!

None is there save himself; now with himself let him war.

I count false words the foulest plague of all.