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> [“If you do, you'll be running an incalculable risk. It will be up to you whether the world begins to live again or stands still forever and a day. Are you really prepared to take that risk?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-ende/if-you-do-you-ll-be-running-an-incalculable-risk-it-will-be-up-to-you/)

[Michael Ende](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-ende/)

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## More by Michael Ende

> [Just as the setting sun turned the clouds to liquid gold.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-ende/just-as-the-setting-sun-turned-the-clouds-to-liquid-gold/)

[Michael Ende](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-ende/)

> [To be wise was to be above joy and sorrow, fear and pity, ambition and humiliation. It was to hate nothing and to love…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-ende/to-be-wise-was-to-be-above-joy-and-sorrow-fear-and-pity-ambition-and/)

[Michael Ende](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-ende/)

> [He had been through a good deal in the course of the Great Quest — he had seen beautiful things and horrible things —…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-ende/he-had-been-through-a-good-deal-in-the-course-of-the-great-quest-he/)

[Michael Ende](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-ende/)

> [There were doors that looked like large keyholes, others that resembled the entrances to caves, there were golden doors, some were padded and some…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-ende/there-were-doors-that-looked-like-large-keyholes-others-that/)

[Michael Ende](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-ende/)

> [“Hasta entonces, todo había sido para él como un gran juego. Se lo había tomado tan en serio como se tomaba cualquier juego y…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-ende/hasta-entonces-todo-habi-a-sido-para-e-l-como-un-gran-juego-se-lo/)

[Michael Ende](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-ende/)

> [Once someone dreams a dream, it can't just drop out of existence. But if the dreamer can't remember it, what becomes of it? It…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-ende/once-someone-dreams-a-dream-it-can-t-just-drop-out-of-existence-but/)

[Michael Ende](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-ende/)

> [“And there in the snow lay the pictures, like jewels bedded in white silk. They were paper-thin sheets of colored transparent isin glass of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-ende/and-there-in-the-snow-lay-the-pictures-like-jewels-bedded-in-white/)

[Michael Ende](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-ende/)

> [There were thousands and thousands of forms of joy in the world, but that all were essentially one and the same, namely, the joy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-ende/there-were-thousands-and-thousands-of-forms-of-joy-in-the-world-but/)

[Michael Ende](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-ende/)

> [“A person’s reason for doing someone a good turn matters as much as the good turn itself.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-ende/a-person-s-reason-for-doing-someone-a-good-turn-matters-as-much-as/)

[Michael Ende](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-ende/)

> [As they advanced (towards the fountain) one after another of Bastian's Fastastican gifts fell away from him. The strong, handsome, fearless hero became the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-ende/as-they-advanced-towards-the-fountain-one-after-another-of-bastian-s/)

[Michael Ende](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-ende/)

> [You wish for something, you've wanted it for years, and you're sure you want it, as long as you know you can't have it.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-ende/you-wish-for-something-you-ve-wanted-it-for-years-and-you-re-sure-you/)

[Michael Ende](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-ende/)

> [I wonder, what's in a book while it's closed. Oh, I know it's full of letters printed on paper, but all the same, something…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-ende/i-wonder-what-s-in-a-book-while-it-s-closed-oh-i-know-it-s-full-of/)

[Michael Ende](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-ende/)

> [“When your turn comes to jump into the Nothing, you too will be a nameless servant of power, with no will of your own.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-ende/when-your-turn-comes-to-jump-into-the-nothing-you-too-will-be-a/)

[Michael Ende](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-ende/)

> [All that matters in life," the grey man went on, "is to climb the ladder of success, amount to something, own things. When a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-ende/all-that-matters-in-life-the-grey-man-went-on-is-to-climb-the-ladder/)

[Michael Ende](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-ende/)

> [Momo listened to everyone and everything - even to the rain and the wind and the pine trees - and all of them spoke…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-ende/momo-listened-to-everyone-and-everything-even-to-the-rain-and-the/)

[Michael Ende](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-ende/)

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