bent: towards the sun / vermisse die sonne

muısic for this post: Max Bruch – Kol Nidrei

"Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken."
Albert Camus

"Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth."
Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Crime and Punishment)

"Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer."
Rainer Maria Rilke

"I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible."
John Steinbeck (East of Eden)

just to rival that one:

"...my heart was irrevocably gone."

Jane Austen (Love and Friendship)

"Goodbye, said the fox. And now here is my secret, a very simple secret. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye."
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince)

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