Ijsje

"And at once the vicissitudes of life had become indifferent to me, its disasters innocuous, its brevity illusory [...] I had ceased now to feel mediocre, accidental, mortal. Whence could it have come to me, this all-powerfull joy?"
-Proust

"Vo comparando; e mi sovvien l'eterno,
E le morte stagioni, e la presente
E viva, e'l suon di lei. Così tra questa
Immensità s'annega il pensier mio:
E'l naufragar m'è dolce in questo mare."
-Leopardi

"Kids! If you really want to piss off your parents, buy real-estate... in an imaginary place."
-Busdriver

"Choose us. Choose life. Choose mortgage payments; choose washing machines; choose cars; choose sitting oan a couch watching mind-numbing and spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fuckin junk food intae yir mooth. Choose rotting away, pishing and shiteing yersel in a home, a total fuckin embarrassment tae the selfish, fucked-up brats ye've produced. Choose life."
-Welsh

‎"Uit het diepst van mijn toekomst was gedurende heel het zinloze leven dat ik had geleid een donkere ademtocht tot mij opgestegen, dwars door de jaren die nog niet waren gekomen, en die ademtocht had op zijn weg alles gelijkgemaakt wat men mij toen had voorgesteld in de jaren die ik wel had geleefd, maar die daarom niet werkelijker waren."
-Camus

"Language is like a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity."
-Flaubert

"For lang tid siden væltede jeg mit stamtræ med en motorsav og sprængte dets rødder med dynamit."
-Korneliussen

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