"As they advanced (towards the fountain) one after……" — 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 small, fat, timid boy. (...) But then he jumped into the crystal-clear water... He drank till his thrist was quenched. And joy filled him from head to foot, the joy of living and the joy of being himself. He was new born. And the best part of it was that he was now the very person he wanted to be. If he had been free to choose, he would have chosen to be no one else."
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Michael Ende
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52 Quotes by Michael Ende
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No architect troubled to design houses that suited people who were to live in them, because that would have meant…
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Those who still think that listening isn’t an art should see if they can do it half as well.
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At certain junctures in the course of existence, unique moments occur when everyone and everything, even the most distant stars,…
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People? People have been obsolete for years, They've made the world a place where there's no room left for their…
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One day, you don't feel like doing anything. Nothing interests you, everything bores you. Feel more and more empty inside,…
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One may enter the literary parlor via just about any door, be it the prison door, the madhouse door, or…
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You don't feel a thing. There's just something missing. And once it gets hold of you, something more is missing…
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When it comes to controlling human beings, there is no better instrument than lies. Because you see, humans live by…
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Momo listened to everyone and everything - even to the rain and the wind and the pine trees - and…
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Life holds one great but quite commonplace mystery. Though shared by each of us and known to all, seldom rates…
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Time is life itself, and life resides in the human heart.
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Calendars and clocks exist to measure time, but that signifies little because we all know that an hour can seem…
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