“The likelihood of meeting anyone who wouldn't make him feel even lonelier seemed increasingly remote. Life was a dwindling process now, not a building proposition. He couldn't imagine being with someone new, opening up, feeling appreciated and understood, without having to explain his dubious non sequiturs and increasingly arcane or redundant frame of reference.”
― quote from The Rocks
“Once someone loses trust, that’s it, Gerald. It’s gone. It’s broken. You can’t repair it with explanations. You can’t wheedle trust back from someone.”
― quote from The Rocks
“Keep Ithaka always in your mind. Arriving there is what you are destined for. But do not hurry the journey at all. Better if it lasts for years, so you are old by the time you reach the island, wealthy with all you have gained on the way, not expecting Ithaka to make you rich. Ithaka gave you the marvelous journey. Without her you would not have set out. . . ”
― quote from The Rocks
“And the seasons, as now, reliably made everything new again. He liked to remember Goethe’s line: “A man can stand anything but a succession of ordinary days.”
― quote from The Rocks
“and male company in Mireille’s neurasthenic”
― quote from The Rocks
“Men are always the last to ken what women know by sniffing the air. That's why God gave bodily might to Adam, to balance the inequities in strength. for if Eve had been given the power to serve her cunning and cruelty, there would have been a terrible reckoning for all mankind, and the archangel would have trod on Adam's heels to escape paradise unsinged.”
― Kathleen Kent, quote from The Heretic's Daughter
“—Ser a la vez científico y religioso supone crear una tregua incómoda en la mente de un hombre —respondió Tobias—. El sentido de la ciencia es aceptar solamente la verdad que puede ser demostrada. El sentido de la fe es definir que la verdad, en su núcleo, es indemostrable.”
― Brandon Sanderson, quote from Legion
“¿Adónde había ido su dulzura? Toda la belleza, toda la bondad, toda la delicadeza que conformaban aquella personita ..., ¿adónde habían ido? ¿Seguían todavía ahora corriendo bajo las brillantes estrellas como un tren que circulaba de noche por un campo nevado? Sin determinar su destino. Siguiendo un rumbo que no puede medirse con los patrones de este mundo. ¿O es posible que vuelva alguna vez? Sucede a veces que una mañana, de improviso, encuentras, en el sitio donde lo dejaste, algo que perdiste mucho tiempo atrás. Bonito, con idéntica forma a la que tenía. Y aún parece más nuevo que cuando lo perdiste. Como si alguien desconocido te lo hubiera estado guardando con amor. ¿Volvería, de la misma forma, su corazón a aquel lugar?.”
― Kyōichi Katayama, quote from Socrates In Love
“Every journey starts with the first step, and the first step down the Dark path is choosing self over sacrifice.”
― C.L. Wilson, quote from King of Sword and Sky
“Nothing in my life has ever made me want to commit suicide more than people's reaction to my trying to commit suicide.”
― Emilie Autumn, quote from The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls
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Narziss und Goldmund
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