There’s a reason for every journey, and mine was prompted by boredom and the recklessness of youth, by a wish to break the bounds of my normal existence and familiarise myself with life and the world at large.
That’s the reward for your good deed,′ I explained, ’a clear conscience. It really perks you up.
It’s quite simple, just follow the dotted line,” the Planmaker explained. “Don’t let any bad idea lead you astray. Don’t let them persuade you to take a short cut or take one yourself. Life is a winding path. One sometimes has to make detours. That’s my humble opinion, anyway.
Beneath me lay the Lake of Oblivion, above me loomed Insanity.
He wasn’t such a bad fellow after all. The rudiments of self-improvement and the intention to achieve it were definitely present.
When bad habits become a habit, you have to turn over a new leaf.
I know people whose lives have been transformed by a good deed.
You can’t beat a good education!
There are times when the truth is the worst possible thing you can come out with.
He gave me a look of mingled anticipation, curiosity, and compassion, like a cat with a captive bird in its claws.
Few minded what their fellow citizens got up to as long as they themselves were left in peace.
It was part of the beauty, but also the tragedy, of this sport that the spectators were the ultimate judges of who sat on the throne.
I was in a bibliophile’s Eylsium.
There are worse things in life than dragons. Falling in love, for instance.
However great the challenge, it’s easier to overcome with a decent meal inside of you.
If what I reading has the power to grip me, I can read under the most difficult circumstances.
Nothing is what one thinks it is. Cloth is stone and circus is an art. There are no certainties.
I could hear it from far away, that sound which only very big cities can produce: a sound consisting of all sounds rolled into one: the hum of voices and the cries of animals, bells ringing and the chink of coins, children’s laughter and hammers beating metal, knives and forks clattering and a thousand doors slamming – the grandiose sound of life, of birth and death, itself.
Lieber hinsetzen und entspannen als hinspannen und entsetzen.
I’ve never thought much of strictly organised and methodical study. You can’t arrange a library in alphabetical order until you’ve collected one.
He was the best bad idea I ever had.