„This much is certain: you can have anything in life except a wife to call you “her man.” And till now all your life was based on that hope.“

— Cesare Pavese

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„It had to happen to you, to concentrate your whole life on one point, and then discover that you can do anything except live at that point.“
— Cesare Pavese
„When you grow up you tend to get told that the world is the way it is and your life is just to live your life inside the world. Try not to bash into the walls too much. Try to have a nice family, have fun, save a little money.That's a very limited life. Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact: Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use.“
— Steve Jobs
„That's why I write, because life never works except in retrospect. You can't control life, at least you can control your version.“
— Chuck Palahniuk
„You can spend your whole life building a wall of facts between you and anything real.“
— Chuck Palahniuk