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The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.

― Tacitus

You often feel tired, not because you've done so much, but because you've done too little of what sparks a light in you.

— Alexander den Heijer

Gregor Schneider | Tote Räume | Den Haag, 2020

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The value of things is not the time they last, but the intensity with which they occur.

— Fernando Pessoa

Diego Maradona

* 30.10.1960 - † 25.11.2020

In der Stadt war man Demütigungen gewohnt, man lebte mit ihnen [...]. Maradona hat dieses Gefühl der Schmach, das die Stadt immer und immer wieder erlitt, verstanden. Er hat das nachgefühlt, der Arbeitersohn aus Villa Fiorito, dem Armenviertel am Rande von Buenos Aires. Der Trotz, es all jenen zu zeigen, die mit dem Finger auf die Schmuddelkinder weisen, der hat ihn und die Stadt vereint.

— Peter Ahrens

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If you can't save yourself, nobody can.

— Cesare Pavese

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People call me a philosopher or a scientist or an anthropologist. I am none of those things. I am an anamnesiologist. I study what has been forgotten. I divine what has disappeared utterly. I work with absences, with silences, with curious gaps between things. I am really more of a magician than anything else.

— Laurence Arne-Sayles

Ohne Zunge; weil sie wieder geraucht hat.

Soon you'll realize that many people will love the idea of you, but will lack the maturity to handle the reality of you.

— Reyna Biddy

Anselm Kiefer | Sternenfall | 1998

We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.

— William Casey; CIA Director, 1981

Disgraceful if, in this life where your body does not fail, your soul should fail you first.

— Marc Aurel

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And like the moon, we must go through
phases of emptiness to feel full again.

Solitude can be a moody companion.

— Jonathan Carroll

Voyage in Time; dir. by Tonino Guerra, 1983

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Am I in love? — Yes, since I'm waiting.

— Roland Barthes

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True contact between beings is established only by mute presence, by apparent non-communication, by that mysterious and wordless exchange which resembles inward prayer.

— E. M. Cioran

Letzter Zug (Lok 364 863-1) am 23.12.1999 auf der Strecke Mülheim-Heißen - Essen-Rüttenscheid - Hattingen; seit November 2004 Radweg Grugatrasse.

[Why are you so sad?] Because you speak to me in words and I look at you with feelings.

— Leo Tolstoy

Andy, take my picture.

The essence of Richard Nixon is loneliness.

— Henry Kissinger

Romy Schneider

La Piscine; dir. by Jacques Deray in 1969

Her fingers are eloquent.

— Andreas Empirikos

Portrait of a Young Girl at the End of the 60's in Brussels;
dir. by Chantal Akerman, 1994

Nature doesn't really care about your beliefs.

— Richard Feynman

Damaged people always find each other, the attraction is irresistible.

— Michael Boiano