"We are always on stage, even when we are stabbed in earnest at the end"

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Source : "Danton's Death". Play by Georg Buchner, Act II, 1835.

Georg Buchner

#Ends Quotes #Stage Quotes #Earnest Quotes

“I write in order to belong.”
“As I get older ... I become more convinced that good government is not a substitute for self-government.”
“Violent passions are formed in solitude. In the busy world no object has time to make a deep impression.”
“It is true that it feels very differently to enjoy a good meal, taking part in an interesting conversation, or to think of how successful your children are. Suppose we do all these things at a particular time. How happy are we at the time? We do not need to calculate the value of each such feelings on any singular scale to answer this question. We need not see our happiness at the time as a mathematical function of these items. It is rather that all these experiences, together with many other factors, causally puts us at the time at a certain level of happiness, i.e. in a certain mood.”

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“When we developed written language, we significantly increased our functional memory and our ability to share insights and knowledge across time and space. The same thing happened with the invention of the printing press, the telegraph, and the radio.”
“Life is about balance too much excess is chaos.”
“Imagine somebody says you are going to die in a few weeks; I'd really rather not know.”

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“But I have always - ever since The Accidental Woman - written novels about individuals attempting to make choices in the context of situations over which they have no control.”

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