

“Some people feel like they don't deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past.”
― Into the Wild
― Into the Wild

“We live together,we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. The martyrs go hand and hand into the arena; they are crucified alone.”
― The Doors of Perception
― The Doors of Perception

“By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.”
― The Road
― The Road
“Abgeschieden vom Lärm des Alltags ist da immer die Sicherheit, dass in uns noch jemand ist, der auf uns aufpasst, auch wenn wir das nicht sehen und nicht hören wollen.”
― Gottes tote Katze und die Last der Existenz: Nihilistische Geschichten
― Gottes tote Katze und die Last der Existenz: Nihilistische Geschichten

“Am I in the wrong place here, or in the wrong life? Did I not recognize, as I sat in a train that raced past a station and did not stop, that I was on the wrong train, and did I not learn from the conductor that the train would not stop at the next station, either, a hundred kilometers away, and did he not also admit to me, whispering with his hand shielding his mouth, that the train would not stop again at all?”
― Conquest of the Useless: Reflections from the Making of Fitzcarraldo
― Conquest of the Useless: Reflections from the Making of Fitzcarraldo

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