Andreas Eschbach Quotes

#1. It seems to me, dear sister, that you still think the important thing is to become like everybody else. In reality, the important thing is to become different from the others, to discover your uniqueness. You're a rebel by birth, but that doesn't mean much. Your own rebellion is still ahead of you.

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#2. She felt the breath of history on her cheek.

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#3. Nothing is more difficult to exterminate than religion, no matter how false it may be.

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#4. Your problem, Nagrant,' he declared, 'is that your education was unconnected with the practical reality of life. You grew up believing that rules are more important than all the facts you could ever uncover, and that the slightest disobedience is deadly.

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#5. Nature's in no hurry, then.
Why would she be? She has literally all the time in the world.

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#6. Nargant often noticed how his own thought processes made endless twists and turns, even to reach totally insignificant decisions, and how much energy he wasted, almost without thinking about it, trying to protect himself on all sides against all eventualities.

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#7. But shame is like a wound that is never exposed and therefore never heals.

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#8. Now he had to decide
what was the right thing to do? Something that required courage. Something that was frightening, because the unknown was lying in wait on the other side.

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#9. It only becomes art if it touches other people.

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#10. Doubt was probably a sickness he was born with, and fighting against it was his lot in life ...

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