„Beautiful heaven, true heaven, look how I change!After such arrogance, after so much strangeIdleness — strange, yet full of potency —I am all open to these shining spaces;Over the homes of the dead my shadow passes,Ghosting along — a ghost subduing me.“

— Paul Valéry

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„If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.“
— H.L. Mencken
„My greatest pleasure was the enjoyment of a serene sky amidst these verdant woods: yet I loved all the changes of Nature; and rain, and storm, and the beautiful clouds of heaven brought their delights with them.“
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley