"No enemy bomber can reach the Ruhr. If one reaches the Ruhr, my name is not Goering. You may call me Meyer."

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Source : Addressing the Luftwaffe in September 1939. "August 1939: The Last Days of Peace" by Nicholas Fleming, p. 171, 1979.

Hermann Goring

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“The extreme pleasure we take in speaking of ourselves should make us apprehensive that it gives hardly any to those who listen to us.”
“I can't play a slave.”
“Sports don't define us; it is not what we live for.”
“I've always seen my drumming as lyrical anyway.”
“I love acting because it's a bit of an escape. It gives you the ability to reinvent yourself. They say that acting is the shy man's revenge.”
“Laughter is a form of internal jogging.”
“It is easy to see things in retrospect. But I was ignorant then of everything but my own happiness, and I donâ€™t know what else to say except that life itself seemed very magical in those days: a web of symbol, coincidence, premonition, omen. Everything, somehow, fit together; some sly and benevolent Providence was revealing itself by degrees and I felt myself trembling on the brink of a fabulous discovery, as though any morning it was all going to come togetherâ€“my future, my past, the whole of my lifeâ€“and I was going to sit up in bed like a thunderbolt and say oh! oh! oh!”

Source : Donna Tartt (2011). “The Secret History”, p.88, Vintage
“There was earth inside them, and they dug.”

Source : Paul Celan, Michael Hamburger (1972). “Nineteen poems”

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