„God is sitting here, looking into my very soul to see if I think right thoughts. Yet I am not afraid, for I try to be right and good; and He knows every one of my struggles.“

— Emily Dickinson

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„I trust in Nature for the stable lawsOf beauty and utility. Spring shall plantAnd Autumn garner to the end of time.I trust in God,—the right shall be the rightAnd other than the wrong, while he endures.I trust in my own soul, that can perceiveThe outward and the inward,—Nature's goodAnd God's.“
— Robert Browning
„If one good deed in all my life I did,I do repent it from my very soul.“
— William Shakespeare
„John Clellon Holmes … and I were sitting around trying to think up the meaning of the Lost Generation and the subsequent Existentialism and I said, 'You know, this is really a beat generation' and he leapt up and said 'That's it, that's right!“
— Jack Kerouac