„What surprises you in life? The marvel of consciousness — that sudden window swinging open on a sunlit landscape amidst the night of non-being.“

— Vladimir Nabokov

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„May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.“
— Franz Kafka
„we would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright.“
— Ernest Hemingway
„Knowledge is the plague of life, and consciousness, an open wound in its heart.“
— Emil M. Cioran
„The window opened gently and a still Autumn night entered cat-like. Edwin smelt freedom and London autumn – decay, smoke, cold, motor oil.“
— Anthony Burgess
„I deal with painting as I deal with things, I paint a window just as I look out of a window. If an open window looks wrong in a picture, I draw the curtain and shut it, just as I would in my own room. In painting, as in life, you must act directly.“
— Pablo Picasso
„Tree at my window, window tree,My sash is lowered when night comes on;But let there never be curtain drawnBetween you and me.“
— Robert Frost
„Home is watching the moon rise over the open, sleeping land and having someone you can call to the window, so you can look together. Home is where you dance with others, and dancing is life.“
— Stephen King