Lemon

“Dear audience, do not fret:
We know well that this is not a reasonable conclusion.
What we thought of was: The golden legend.
It took a bitter end in secrecy.
We ourselves are disappointed and watch worried
The curtain closed and all answers open.

Verehrtes Publikum, jetzt kein Verdruß:
Wir wissen wohl, das ist kein rechter Schluss.
Vorschwebte uns: die goldene Legende.
Unter der Hand nahm sie ein bitteres Ende.
Wir stehen selbst enttäuscht und sehn betroffen
Den Vorhang zu und alle Fragen offen.”
― Bertolt Brecht, Der Gute Mensch Von Sezuan

“Once upon a time, I, Chuang Tzu, dreamt that i was a butterfly. flitting around and enjoying myself. I had no idea I was Chuang Tzu. Then suddenly I woke up and was Chuang Tzu again. But I could not tell, had I been Chuang Tzu dreaming I was a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming I was now Chuang Tzu? However, there must be some sort of difference between Chuang Tzu and a butterfly! We call this the transformation of things.”
― Zhuangzi, Chuang Tsu: Inner Chapters

“I am a cage, in search of a bird.”
― Franz Kafka

“When does a man die? When he is hit by a bullet? No! When he suffers a disease? No! When he ate a soup made out of a poisonous mushroom? No! A man dies when he is forgotten!”
― Eiichiro Oda, One Piece, Volume 16: Carrying On His Will