„I’d woken up early, and I took a long time getting ready to exist.“

— Fernando Pessoa

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„I could just remember how my father used to say that the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time.“
— William Faulkner
„I'd like to say I took the news well.The truth was, I wanted to strangle the Hunters of Artemis one eternal maiden at a time.--Percy Jackson“
— Rick Riordan
„It took me a long time to understand my water lilies... I planted them for pleasure, and grew them without thinking of painting them.. You don't absorb a landscape in a day... And then, all of a sudden, I had the revelation of the enchantment of my pond. I took up my palette.“
— Claude Monet