Georg Trakl, Offenbarung und Untergang;
gesprochen von Klaus Löwitsch

Und Löwitsch? Wahrscheinlich ist es diese Fremdheit im eigenen praktischen Leben, die dieser neuen Arbeit Löwitschs den Untergrund des Bedrängenden, Herzgetroffenen, Aufgehetzten gibt. Mit "Offenbarung und Untergang" hat er einen Stoff in Händen, der seiner ist. Den er erobert, indem er sich ihm unterwirft. Mit inspiriertem Übermut, mit sentimentaler Hingabe, mit einem wirklich eigenen Atemzug.

— Hans-Dieter Schütt

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Zum Glück gehört, dass man irgendwann beschließt, zufrieden zu sein.

— Klaus Löwitsch

If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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Horst Tappert | Ernst Schröder

Derrick, Dr. Römer und der Mann des Jahres;
inszeniert von Theodor Grädler, 1983

Wissen Sie, was die Krankheit dieser Menschen ist? Aller Menschen. Ratlosigkeit.

— Prof. Rotheim

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I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.

— John Steinbeck

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[Bangs; as always.]

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Τhis is only a love letter and needs no answer.

In order to love who you are, you cannot hate the experiences that shaped you.

― Andrew Dykstra

Vangelis, Chariots of Fire; 1997
Panathenean Stadium, Athens

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According to Bohr and Heisenberg, the universe exists as an infinite number of overlapping possibilities.

― Gregg Braden

I was never lonely in space. The loneliest people live in big cities. Being lonely is a state of mind.

— Chris Hadfield

Faber.

Our stories are different; our pain is the same.

― Betty Buckley

Never regret anything you have done with a sincere affection; nothing is lost that is born of the heart.

― Basil Rathbone

Patti Smith; ph. by Robert Mapplethorpe, 1970

[Bangs; as always.]

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You are the piece of the puzzle of someone else's life. You may never know where you fit, but others will fill the holes in their lives with pieces of you.

― Bonnie Arbon

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We simply do not understand our place in the universe and have not the courage to admit it.

― Henry Kravis

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Eurodance never dies.
Welcome back, Jasmin.

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Den meisten gelingt es nie, in ihr eigenes Herz vorzudringen. Und wenn doch, ist das Ergebnis oft anderes als erwartet oder wir hätten uns etwas anderes für uns gewünscht. Ich bin jedenfalls sehr dankbar dafür, dass ich dabei sein durfte, wie sie in ihr Herz vordringen. Ich weiß, dass sie ihrem Schicksal mit Mut und Tapferkeit entgegentreten. Auch in den Momenten, die selbst die Stärksten auf die Probe stellen.

— Christopher Pike

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Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

— George Orwell

Wer nicht vor der Regression gelebt hat, weiss nichts von der Süsse des Lebens.

— Peter Sloterdijk

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The desire to go home that is a desire to be whole, to know where you are, to be the point of intersection of all the lines drawn through all the stars, to be the constellation-maker and the center of the world, that center called love. To awaken from sleep, to rest from awakening, to tame the animal, to let the soul go wild, to shelter in darkness and blaze with light, to cease to speak and be perfectly understood.

— Rebecca Solnit

Never explain, never complain.

One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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I use the stars to find you.

You are lovely as despair.

— Odysseus Elytis

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In my later work, the person who is navigating the space, his or her experience becomes the content. So, the whole subject-object relationship is reversed. The content is you. If you don't walk into the work and engage with it, there isn't any content.

— Richard Serra

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First you have to train your creative muscles. Go to movies, concerts and museums. You have to train both your body and mind. Everyday is a fight.

— Tadao Andō

Letzte Nachrichten; mit Peter Nießing, 01.02.1982

Der SPD-Vorsitzende Brandt erklärte [...] die wichtigsten Entscheidungen seien gefallen. Einzelheiten gab Brandt nicht bekannt.

— Peter Nießing

Die Funktion der Kunst besteht darin, gegen die Verpflichtung zu kämpfen.

— Amedeo Modigliani

I have had to learn the simplest things last.

— Charles Olson

Your true heart lives in your memory. It is nourished by the images it contains — that's how it lives.

— Haruki Murakami

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

— Jack Kerouac

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Richard Serra | Rotterdam Horizontal 5 | 2016

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The steel and the space, or the object and the void, become one and the same.

— Richard Serra

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If the doors of perception were cleansed, then everything would appear to man as it is — infinite.

— William Blake

Richard Serra | Double Elliptic Torsion | 1998

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I exist outside of your perception of me.

The past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.

— Virginia Woolf

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Never be limited by other people's limited imaginations.

— Mae Jemison

I am trying to walk into my own heart.

— Shannon Elizabeth Hardwick