„After everything that’s happened, how can the world still be so beautiful? Because it is.“

— Margaret Atwood

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„The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance… logic can be happily tossed out the window.“
— Stephen King
„How do you tell an adult that maybe everything wrong in the world stems from the fact that she's stopped believing the impossible can happen?“
— Jodi Picoult
„If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.“
— Michael Jackson
„I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.“
— Virginia Woolf
„Beauty was not everything. Beauty had this penalty — it came too readily, came too completely. It stilled life — froze it.“
— Virginia Woolf
„The world, after all, was still a place of bottomless horror. It was by no means a place of childlike simplicity where everything could be settled by a simple then-and-there decision.“
— Osamu Dazai
„A great piece of music is beautiful regardless of how it is performed. Any prelude or fugue of Bach can be played at any tempo, with or without rhythmic nuances, and it will still be great music. That's how music should be written, so that no-one, no matter how philistine, can ruin it.“
— Dmitri Shostakovich