„This was what people fought wars over, she thought, and killed each other over, and destroyed their lives for: this nerve-shredding mixture of longing and pleasure.“

— Cassandra Clare

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„Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.“
— Virginia Woolf
„Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul.“
— Virginia Woolf
„There is an urge and rage in people to destroy, to kill, to murder, and until all mankind, without exception, undergoes a great change, wars will be waged, everything that has been built up, cultivated and grown, will be destroyed and disfigured, after which mankind will have to begin all over again.“
— Anne Frank
„I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that each should stand guard over the solitude of the other.“
— Rainer Maria Rilke