„I know what wages beauty gives,How hard a life her servant lives,Yet praise the winters gone:There is not a fool can call me friend,And I may dine at journey’s endWith Landor and with Donne.“

— W.B. Yeats

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„I now begin the journey that will lead me into the sunset of my life. I know that for America there will always be a bright dawn ahead. Thank you, my friends. May God always bless you.“
— Ronald Reagan
„What beats me — it always does — is how a man can be so clever and yet be such a perfect fool.“
— Agatha Christie
„May she be granted beauty and yet notBeauty to make a stranger’s eye distraught,Or hers before a looking-glass, for such,Being made beautiful overmuch,Consider beauty a sufficient end,Lose natural kindness and maybeThe heart-revealing intimacyThat chooses right, and never find a friend.“
— W.B. Yeats
„I have great faith in fools — self-confidence my friends will call it.“
— Edgar Allan Poe
„I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life but that great consciousness of life.“
— Jack Kerouac