"Everyone on earth always marries the wrong person.""Thought is never action, forward, up and at it, as people think who do not know what thinking is; it is not like a forest explorer cutting back creeping vines, but more like someone letting himself relax into a hot bath."
"The hand lay in hers like an item of lost property."
"Happiness was not freedom from chains but release from chains. Chains were an indispensable part of happiness!"
"Have you ever noticed the area of Protestanism coincides with the area covered by polar ice in the Ice Age? In the Netherlands, the border runs right through the middle: where was ice is the territory of the Protestants, as far as Hammerfest, and where grass grew is Catholic, as far as Palermo. And where did Calvin live? In Switzerland! The only Protestant country in the Catholic area when there are still glaciers."
"Human nature is so conservative that in someone else's place one always tends to sit where one sat for the first time."
"In a world full of war, famine, oppression, deceit, monotony, what -apart from the eternal innocence of animals- offers an image of hope? ......No the image of hope is someone passing with a musical instrument in a case."
"The good intentions are the worst thing, because they make you powerless."
"Never tell a woman anything, because she'll misuse it to understand you."
"People returning from a journey carry the distances they have traveled with them like outspread wings- until they put the key in their front door. Then the wings fold up, and they are home again, as though in the center of an impassable steel ring on the horizon."
"Everyone dies their own unique death."
"Mankind doesn't really belong in the universe at all, but now that it's there, everything is possible in all kinds of ways."
"That's the marvel of numbness. Nature is the sleep of the intellect. Only in the city does the spirit awaken."
"Perplexed, he wondered whether he had really slept with the grandmother of his child - in the bed of her daughter, who had just been in an accident, dressed in the pajamas of her husband who had just died."
"With every new technological gadget, human life has automatically become more absurd."
"Whoever talks about time also talks about death."
"Hidden side of a man was visible as his wife, just as the hidden side of a woman was visible as her husband."
"The new is always the old. Everything that's old was once new, and everything that's new will one day be old. The oldest thing of all is the present, because there's never been anything else but the present. No one has ever lived in the past, and no one lives in the future, either."
"Between man and woman there should be nothing but misunderstandings, so that they can be overcome by physical intercourse."
"Fidel had his own optimistic design, with the ideal of the New Man in the role of God, and Che in that of his murdered son - Fidel had his blessing."
"Might it be that beauty was geometrically and musically calculable but that, in turn, perfection somehow diverged from it? Just as a straight line drawn with a ruler was always somehow less than a straight line when Picasso drew without a ruler."
"Without people's poor memories, politics would be completely impossible."
"The rise and fall of world empires has gone on forever. Politics are the rippling of the waves in a storm - makes no difference at all to the waves, because they come from somewhere completely different: they come from the moon."
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