„p>Pity him who lives at homeHappy with his life,Without a dream, a flexing of wings,To make him relinquishEven the warmest ember of his hearth!Pity him who is happy!He lives because life lasts.Nothing within him whispersMore than the primeval law:That life leads to the grave.
— Fernando Pessoa

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„By his monstrous way of life he seemed to have put himself beyond the limits of reality. Nothing moved him or spoke to him from the real world unless he heard it in an echo of the infuriated cries within him.“
— James Joyce
„Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days.“
— Flannery O’Connor
„Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. To perform this difficult office it is sometimes necessary for him to sacrifice happiness and everything that makes life worth living for the ordinary human being.“
— C.G. Jung
„Nothing in his life became him like leaving it.“
— William Shakespeare
„With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.“
— Harper Lee