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1 " On the church vaulting above was the clock-face of eternity, void of number and serving as its own hand, only one black finger was pointing and the dead wanted to tell the time by it. "
― Jean Paul Friedrich Richter
2 " Fine minds are seldom fine souls. "
3 " Music is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life. "
4 " Courage consists, not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing and conquering it. "
5 " The Fates and Furies, as well as the Graces and Sirens, glide with linked hands over life. "
6 " How alone everyone is in the vast tomb of the universe! "
7 " To read a poem in January is as lovely as to go for a walk in June. "
8 " Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life. "
9 " Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. "
10 " A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward. "
11 " Romantic love has been diluted into paperback form and has sold thousands and millions of copies. Somewhere it is still in the original, written on tablets of stone. I would cross seas and suffer sunstroke and give away all I have, but not for a man, because they want to be the destroyer and never the destroyed. That is why they are unfit for romantic love. There are exceptions and I hope they are happy. The unknownness of my needs frightens me. I do not know how huge they are, or how high they are, I only know that they are not being met. "
― Jean Paul Friedrich Richter , Die wunderbare Gesellschaft in der Neujahrsnacht
12 " Фантазия европейца так портится с каждым веком, что в конце концов станет невозможным не быть бесконечно тонким, когда не понимаешь, о чём речь. "
― Jean Paul Friedrich Richter , Приготовительная школа эстетики
13 " ..einmal ein Reich-Abschied von 1577 den guten Frauen das körperliche Springen verbot.. "
14 " Durch den Nachgeschmack des vergangenen und den Vorgeschmack des zukünftigen Leidens überfüllen wir den Kelch des Augenblickes selbst. "
15 " Die deutsche Sprache ist die Orgel unter den Sprachen. "
16 " Сам поэт должен научиться писать свои вещи в перевёрнутом виде, чтобы только в зеркале искусства, претерпев ещё одно обращение, становился разборчив и удобочитаем его почерк. "
17 " the flute is the true magical rod that changes all it touches in the inward world; an enchanter's wand at which the secret depths of the soul open. The inward world is the true world," said Vult; "the moonlight that shines into our hearts. "
― Jean Paul Friedrich Richter ,
18 " Paradise is always where love dwells. "
19 " Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations. "
20 " A man never discloses his character so clearly as when he descibes another's "
