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“Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.” ― Albert Camus

¨Tell them to walk in the shade. To listen with their eyes, to see with their skin, and to feel with their ears. Because life speaks to all of us, and we just need to know how and be willing to listen to it, to see it, to feel it."

- Sofia Segovia, El murmullo de las abejas.

"Yes, man is mortal, but that would be only half the trouble. The worst of it is that he's sometimes unexpectedly mortal—there's the trick! And generally he's unable to say what he's going to do this same evening" ---- Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

“The blessed time of my youth passes by, I pour out the wine of my oblivion. Bitter it is, and thus it pleases me. For this bitterness is the zest of my life.” ― Amin Maalouf, Samarkand

“If the world can love each other, countries will not attack each other, families will not cause chaos, there will be no thieves, and the ruler, ministers, fathers and sons will all be filial and kind, then the world will be governed in this way.”——《墨子》

"So deutsch ist diese BRD allemal, daß anarchischer Individualismus nur Ernst Jünger und als Hit in Programmkinos erlaubt ist!" (Jörg Fauser, "Der Weg nach El Paso, 1985.)

“It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”
― Philip K. Dick, VALIS

“Some of you say, “Joy is greater than sorrow,” and others say, “Nay, sorrow is the greater.” But I say unto you, they are inseparable. Together they come, and when one sits alone with you at your board, remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.” ― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet