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Momo
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Was die kleine Momo konnte wie kein anderer, das war: zuhören. Das ist nichts Besonderes, wird nun vielleicht mancher Leser sagen, zuhören kann doch jeder. Aber das ist ein Irrtum. Wirklich zuhören können nur ganz wenige Menschen.


“Not all those who wander are lost.”
― The Fellowship of the Ring
― The Fellowship of the Ring

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
― A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

“large birds flew swiftly over the Bois, as over a real wood, and with shrill cries perched, one after another, on the great oaks which, beneath their Druidical crown, and with Dodonian majesty, seemed to proclaim the inhuman emptiness of this deconsecrated forest, and helped me to understand how paradoxical it is to seek in reality for the pictures that are stored in one’s memory, which must inevitably lose the charm that comes to them from memory itself and from their not being apprehended by the senses. The reality that I had known no longer existed. It”
― Swann's Way
― Swann's Way

“We try to rediscover in things, now precious because of it, the glimmer that our soul projected on them; we are disappointed to find that they seem to lack in nature the charm they derived in our thoughts from the proximity of certain ideas; at times we convert all the forces of that soul into cunning, into magnificence, in order to have an effect on people who are outside us, as we are well aware, and whom we will never reach”
― Swann’s Way
― Swann’s Way

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