"Jeder Mensch ist ein leer stehendes Haus, er wartet, dass ein anderer das Schloss öffnet und ihn befreit. Eines Tages wird mein Wunsch Wirklichkeit. Geisterhaft kommt ein Mensch und holt mich aus meiner Gefangenschaft heraus. Und ich folge ihm, ohne wenn und aber…"
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I want to do something absolutely different, or perhaps nothing at all: just stay where I am, in my home, and absorb each hour, each day, and be alone; and read and think; and walk about the garden in the night; and wait, wait…
— Rosamond Lehmann, Invitation to the Waltz
And why do some show no mercy while others are painfully shy?
— Andrew Bird, Imitosis
The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed in Sun, William Blake
’Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?’
‘That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,’ said the Cat.
‘I don’t much care where—’ said Alice.
‘Then it doesn’t matter which way you go,’ said the Cat.
‘—so long as I get somewhere,’ Alice added as an explanation.
‘Oh, you’re sure to do that,’ said the Cat, ‘if you only walk long enough.’
ALICE’S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND. Lewis Carrol
All the people think I’m a quiet girl when they rather not know that there is a war in my mind
