Who you are. You don't have to defend it. Or explain it. You just have to set it free. That's your journey. In the end, you will not count the souls who understood you. You will ponder the soulfulness with which you lived your life. You will want to feel you tasted often your own wilderness. And it was divine.

— Jaiya John

I don't pay attention to the world ending. It has ended for me many times and began again in the morning.

— Charles Bukowski

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Erich von Däniken

* 14.04.1935 - † 10.01.2026

Es sind die Fantasten,
die die Welt verändern,
nicht die Erbsenzähler.

Die Lust das Bild zu sehen, das man sich erträumt hat.

― Werner Nekes

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Optimismus ist Feigheit.

― Oswald Spengler

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Jahreswechsel.

Ich bin treu gegen meine Erinnerungen; ich bin niemals treu gegen die Menschen.

― Lou Andreas-Salomé

Nur wenige bewahren die Form in der Formlosigkeit.

― Oswald Spengler

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This time of year.

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To ignore Christmas takes a special wisdom.

— Charles Bukowski

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Udo Kier

* 14.10.1944 - † 23.11.2025

Die größten Dinge, die ich je gemacht habe,
sind die Dinge, die ich nicht gemacht habe.

The only way you will ever awaken is through the silence, not through analyzation of facts. Not by sorting out good and bad, but through simple silence, letting go. Letting go of all thoughts, all the hurts, all the dogmas and concepts. Letting go of these things daily.

— Robert Adams

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Ich bin altmodisch. Ich bin ein Mann mit einer alten Seele.

— Oskar Werner

Homayoun Ershadi

* 06.03.1947 - † 11.11.2025

You exist as an idea in your mind.

— Shunryu Suzuki

Farewell and Ataraxia,

Klaus Doldinger

* 12.05.1936 - † 16.10.2025

It is almost unimportant whether a work finds an understanding audience. One has to do it because one believes that it is the right thing to do. We are not only here to please.

— Pina Bausch

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You cannot use somebody else's map to find yourself.

— Andrei Tarkovsky

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