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"At 50, everyone has the face he deserves."

"Rank.Certainly. However wretched I may feel, I want to prolong the agony as long as possible."

"All plots tend to move deathwards. This is the nature of plots."

"Life is not like water. Things in life don't necessarily flow over the shortest possible route."

"Axiom: Novel must have either one living character or a perfect pattern: fails otherwise."

"Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion."

"The Judy Garland Club: established 1963; official international Club supported by Judy during her lifetime"

"The Political Aesthetics of Holocaust Literature: Peter Weiss's The Investigation and Its Critics" by Robert Cohen, History and Memory Vol. 10, No. 2"

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Philosophy

Enlightenment

1729–1781

"Trust no friend without faults, and love a maiden, but no angel."

"Music is a Place to take Refuge. It's a Sanctuary from Mediocrity and Boredom. It's Innocent and it's a Place you can loose yourself in Thoughts, Memories and Intricacies."

"The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering."

"an eight minute film created by Studio Louter, using Salomon's original goauches, for the Jewish Historical Museum"

"The work of art is a stuffed crocodile. ."

"To have real knowledge, one must understand the essence of things and not only their manifestations."

"We never talked about men or clothes or inconsequential things we got together. It was always Marx, Lenin and revolution - real girls' talk."

"When music speaks, everybody understands."

"When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew."

"Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence."

"The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you."

"Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs."

"It cannot be emphasized too strongly that art, as such, does not "pay," to use an American expression – at least, not in the beginning – and that the art that has to pay its own way is apt to become vitiated and cheap."

"I loved but once, yet twice I lose my love!"

🇺🇸Madonna (entertainer)

Music

b. 1958

"Bette Midler: "She has pulled herself up by her own bra-straps... and has been known to let them down occasionally."

"Sometimes you have to be a bitch to get things done."

"I'm never going to stop making music. I couldn't."

"What is the main thing in love? To know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding overpowers the knowing . The passion for the hidden — the passion for the revealed."

"Sophie Scholl and the White Rose" at Shoah Education Project"

"Give Him thanks, all ye His works so wondrous! Sing His honor, sing His glory, bless and magnify His Name! Jehovah’s praise endures forevermore, Amen, Amen!."

"Accidents don't happen to people who take accidents as a personal insult."

"The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny."

"Translation: Nothing conveys the feeling of infinity as much as stupidity does."

"And then I saw the menu, stained with tea and beautifully written by a foreign hand, and on top it said…"Chips with everything". Chips with every damn thing. You breed babies and you eat chips with everything."

"Self-portraiture is something one should never get involved in, since it is wrong to lie even though one endeavours to tell the truth."

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