"It is the narrow, hidden tracks that lead back to our lost homeland, what contains the solution to the last mysteries is not the ugly scar that life's rasp leaves on us, but the fine, almost invisible writing that is engraved on our body."

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Source : Gustav Meyrink, Mike Mitchell (Translator) (2013). “The Golem”, p.85, SCB Distributors

Gustav Meyrink

#Writing Quotes #Track Quotes #Body Quotes

“We all construct worldviews that give us a sense of meaning. Mostly it is about belonging to a group and having a sense of identity and purpose.”
“First of all we had very few users. We might have had a hundred accesses a day. So there was really no demand from the users to add their own links. Things changed over time though as our access rates doubled every month. Through word of mouth on the Net more and more people began using it.”
“I don't wait for inspiration. I'm not, in fact, quite sure what inspiration is, but I'm sure that if it is going to turn up, my having started work is the precondition of its arrival.”
“And itâ€™s not like Iâ€™ve never jacked off. Iâ€™m fifteen years old. Of course I do it. Any guy who says he doesnâ€™t is lying. That would be like having the coolest video game ever and never playing it. No oneâ€™s that stupid.”
“She saved my life...and Iâ€™ve ruined hers. They sat in silence for a full minute, the air between them growing heavy, as if they both wanted to speak, and yet had nothing to say. They were strangers, after all, on a brief and bizarre journey that had just reached a fork in the road, each of them now needing to find seperate paths.”
“Reality, like beauty, is in relationship and there only.”
“Understand, it's never been easy to live, when we're trying to escape ourselves.”
“Time is a beast who has the immense patience to swallow everything.”

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