„The novelist should not make any character act absurdly, but only absurdly as seen by others. For it is so in life.“

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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„Any fool can fight a winning battle, but it needs character to fight a losing one, and that should inspire us; which reminds me that I dreamed the other night that I was being hanged, but was the life and soul of the party.“
— W.B. Yeats
„In relation to any act of life, the mind acts as a killjoy.“
— Emil M. Cioran
„It's your life-but only if you make it so.“
— Eleanor Roosevelt
„Why should I want to make anything up? Life's bad enough as it is without wanting to invent any more of it.“
— Douglas Adams