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For the eyes are the mirror of the soul and ought to remain unscathed if at all possible. Otherwise people will suppose the soul is done for.
Wonderful, Wonderful Times (1990)
Every man would like to possess all the women in the world, but a woman only wants the man she loves and to whom she is faithful.
Wonderful, Wonderful Times (1990)
In the old days people had no time to harm the environment because they were busy doing harm to themselves, in the War, for instance.
Wonderful, Wonderful Times (1990)
Death the Laveller annihilates all distinctions.
Wonderful, Wonderful Times (1990)
Of course, art turns many people away for there has to be a limit. The limits between the gifted and the ungifted.
The Piano Teacher (1988)
Work is not a constraint.Man's activity provides his true fulfilment. True fulfilment however,can only be achieved if one man is not another man's slave.
Wonderful, Wonderful Times (1990)
There are photographs under the pistol, showing his mother genitals. These genitals make no perceptible impression on him, though it was through them that he first entered the world.
Wonderful, Wonderful Times (1990)
There is no such thing as the universal ‘Man’ never has been, never will be, there is the worker and there is the one who exploits the worker and those who abet him.
Wonderful, Wonderful Times (1990)
The poet is a king in his realm. His is empire of imagination, in which there are unlimited mansions.
Wonderful, Wonderful Times (1990)
Pain itself is merely a consequence of the desire for pleasure, the desire t destroy, to annihilate; in its supreme form, pain is a variety of pleasure.
The Piano Teacher (1988)
Der Sensible muß verbrennen, dieser zarte Nachtfalter.
The Piano Teacher (1988)
if someone has a fate, then it's a man, if someone gets a fate, then it's a woman.
Women As Lovers (1994)
often these women marry or they are ruined some other way.
Women As Lovers (1994)
sewing in itself is already in the women's blood.
Women As Lovers (1994)
Time stands still for man and woman alike, it is a good moment, because Time usually makes everything worse, poor people grow old, rich people can buy a little time but they can'hold it up for good, it always catches up with them. In the last analysis, Time is democratic.
Wonderful, Wonderful Times (1990)
When discussing Bach’s six Brandenburg concertos, the artistically aware person usually states, among other things, that when these masterpieces were composed, the stars were dancing in heavens. God and his dwelling place are always involved whenever these people talk about Bach.
The Piano Teacher (1988)
The world would be a lot better off if it paid more attention to its philosophers and artists than to its own tiny egotistic spirit, which lacks an overview. People should place their belief in Beethoven and Socrates.
Wonderful, Wonderful Times (1990)
weak are defeated by the strong in the world of Nature. A reed by the north wind, for instance. And silence by the forest.
Wonderful, Wonderful Times (1990)
Don’t start anything you can’t finish.
The Piano Teacher (1988)
The most powerful urge known to Man is the urge to be free of manual labour. Any means that accomplishes that end is fine. Some people erroneously imagine that they have a birthright to non-manual work.
Wonderful, Wonderful Times (1990)