لم يوجد الحب ليجعلنا سعداء، بل أنا أعتقد أن الحب وجد ليبين لنا مدى قوتنا على المعاناة والاحتمال - Hermann Hesse

..it is useless for you to build walls and dormitories and chapels and churches. Death looks through the window and laughs..

When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.

For a while the cloister of Mariabronn was renowned for its exorcists and devil-chasers; for a while for the beauty of its plain chaunt; then for a saintly father who healed and wrought miracles; then for its pike broth and stag’s liver pasty - each in its time.