sein oder glauben

"Das gesamte Leben der menschlichen
Seele ist eine Bewegung im Schatten.
Wir leben in einem Zwielicht des Bewusstseins,
uns nie dessen sicher, was wir sind,
oder dessen, was wir zu sein glauben."

- Fernando Pessoa, Das Buch der Unruhe

Tätigkeit Ewigkeit

Alles unser Wissen ist ein Darlehn der Welt und der Vorwelt. 
Der tätige Mensch trägt es an die Mitwelt und Nachwelt ab; 
der untätige stirbt mit einer unbezahlten Schuld. Jeder, der 
etwas Gutes wirkt, hat für die Ewigkeit gearbeitet.

- Schiller, Jena, den 22. Sept. 90

das Wort

Das Wort verleiht mir die Flügel
dir vorbei zu bringen,
was anderswo
meine Seele geerntet hat.

truth isn't the probable

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

- Mark Twain, Following the Equator

Desire to Elysium

- Can I help you, ma'am?
- Well, they told me to take a streetcar named Desire then transfer to one called Cemeteries ride 6 blocks and get off at Elysian Fields.
- There's your car now.
- Thanks!

- When he got home, she was waiting. Boy, you never heard nothing like that...

a streetcar named desire (1951)

mission impossible

when the ratio of the natural possibilities to the probability of an irrational thought reaches gold, any vision turns out to become a beautiful reality.

first time

- Leon, I think I'm kinda falling in love with you. It's the first time for me, you know.
- How do you know it's love if you've never been in love before?
- 'Cause I feel it.
- Where?
- In my stomach. It's all warm. I always had a knot there, and now...it's gone.
- Mathilda, I'm glad you don't have a stomach ache anymore. I don't think it means anything.

Leon (1994)

Greeks love to dance

- Now you can get out of the brothel business.

- I don't know...

- With the Germans gone, you'll have to - Greeks, they don't pay.

- They don't have to.

escape to Athena (1979)

uniform and conquer

Gleichschnitt, Gleichschritt
links, rechts, links rechts, rechts