"She would sit by herself in the middle……" — Michael Ende
"She would sit by herself in the middle of the old stoe amphitheatre, with the sky's starry vault overhead, and simply listen to the great silence around her."
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52 Quotes by Michael Ende
Michael Ende has 52 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
- No architect troubled to design houses that suited people who were to live in them, because that would have meant…
- Those who still think that listening isn’t an art should see if they can do it half as well.
- At certain junctures in the course of existence, unique moments occur when everyone and everything, even the most distant stars,…
- People? People have been obsolete for years, They've made the world a place where there's no room left for their…
- One day, you don't feel like doing anything. Nothing interests you, everything bores you. Feel more and more empty inside,…
- One may enter the literary parlor via just about any door, be it the prison door, the madhouse door, or…
- You don't feel a thing. There's just something missing. And once it gets hold of you, something more is missing…
- When it comes to controlling human beings, there is no better instrument than lies. Because you see, humans live by…
- Momo listened to everyone and everything - even to the rain and the wind and the pine trees - and…
- Life holds one great but quite commonplace mystery. Though shared by each of us and known to all, seldom rates…
- Time is life itself, and life resides in the human heart.
- Calendars and clocks exist to measure time, but that signifies little because we all know that an hour can seem…
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