„I like thought which preserves a whiff of flesh and blood, and I prefer a thousand times an idea rising from sexual tension or nervous depression to empty abstraction.“

— Emil M. Cioran

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„Dawn, n. The time when men of reason go to bed. Certain old men prefer to rise at about that time, taking a cold bath and a long walk with an empty stomach, and otherwise mortifying the flesh.“
— Ambrose Bierce
„people diminish me;the longer I sit and listen to themthe more empty I feel but I don't getthe idea that they feel empty, I feelthat they enjoy the sound from theirmouths.“
— Charles Bukowski
„A thousand Dreams within me softly burn:From time to time my heart is like some oakWhose blood runs golden where a branch is torn.“
— Arthur Rimbaud