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Licht is von großen Sonnen, Licht ist Handeln, in seiner Fülle nicht zu überstehen, ich liebe auch den Flieder und die Mandeln mehr in Verschleierung zur Blüte gehen. - Gottfried Benn --------------------------------------- Light comes from grand suns, Light the action, In its fulfilment not to be endured, I, too, prefer for the lilacs and the almonds Into bloom to pass in veiling.

There's a moment comedies beget When escapade and hubbub die away, Vows are renewed, masks dropped, La Folle Journée Arriving star by star at a septet. It's then the connoisseur of your bouquet (Who sits dry-eyed through Oedipus or Lear) Will shed, O Happiness, a furtive tear. - James Merrill

The human being is factually placed in the center of a factual world and endowed with such organs as to be able to bring about the Factual and, incidentally, the Possible. All healthy human beings are convinced of their own existence as well as of that which exists around them. There is, however, a blind spot in the brain, that is, a place where no object is mirrored, as well as there is, in the eye, a spot that cannot see. If someone happens to turn with especial attention to this spot, they delve in it, they plunge into a state of spiritual sickness, they sense 'things from another world', which, however, are actually unthings, having neither form nor contours, but rather, as void nocturnal spatiality [Nacht-Räumlichkeit], breed angst and haunts those who cannot tear themselves away more than any other ghost. - Goethe

Je vis! dit la sainte, elle expire! Et mêle son noir pétale A l'obsession végétale De l'ange qui la respire! - Paul Claudel, Hortus conclusus