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Wir träumten voneinander
Und sind davon erwacht
Wir leben, um uns zu lieben,
Und sinken zurück in die Nacht.


- Ich und Du, Christian Friedrich Hebbel
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Kein Leid ist größer als die Erinnerung an die Liebe und das Wissen, dass sie für immer gestorben ist... selbst in den Träumen.


- Die Nebel von Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley
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He simply felt that if he could carry away the vision of the spot of earth she walked on, and the way the sky and sea enclosed it, the rest of the world might seem less empty.


- The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton
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She would leave the hall on her husband's arm: he would bow politely as she passed.


- Grendel, John Gardner
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In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule.


- Beyond Good and Evil, Friedrich Nietzsche
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His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.


- The Dead, James Joyce
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Je tremble d'avoir oublié tant d'amour...


- Hiroshima mon amour, Marguerite Duras
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Something in truth lay dead between them - the love she had killed in him and could no longer call to life. But something lived between them also, and leaped up in her like an imperishable flame: it was the love his love had kindled, the passion of her soul for his.


- The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton
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Quelque chose en nous ne cesse jamais de pleurer comme les murs humides d'une prison: est-ce l'enfance trop éphémère? l'ombre de nos ancêtres qui se lèvent de leurs tombeaux pour regretter ce qu'ils ont fait ou n'ont pas osé faire? Quelque chose ou quelqu'un en moi ne cesse de pleurer, mais, au-dehors, je refuse les larmes.

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L'oubli a le goût du sable dans la bouche, la douceur du sable quand il épouse les paumes et le ventre, l'infini des sables que répercute le cri des charognards.


- Les Raisins de la galère, Tahar Ben Jelloun
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Such an attitude stems from a tragic misconception of time, from the strangely irrational notion that there is something in the very flow of time that will inevitably cure all ills.

- Letter from a Birmingham Jail, Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Die Wissenden reden nicht viel,
die Redenden wissen nicht viel.

- Chinesisches Sprichwort
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Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.

- Oscar Wilde
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"Also soll das endliche Ich streben, alles was in ihm möglich ist, wirklich... zu machen."

- Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
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