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“Their eyelashes were moist, and small drops of sweat beaded their upper lips. I regarded their slumber, almost innocent in its foolish thoughtlessness and its oblivion of all danger and the outside world. Is this what human beings call happiness?”

Happiness Safety Oblivion

Book:The Dwarf

Source: The Dwarf

“In appearance he was well-bred amiability personified, but one cannot judge by people's faces. It is their bodies which show them as the kind of animals they are.”

People Character Faces Animals

Book:The Dwarf

Source: The Dwarf

“Nothing is more foreign than the world of one's childhood when one has truly left it.”

Growth Childhood Maturity

Book:The Sibyl

Source: The Sibyl

“And they are deformed though it does not show on the outside. I live only my dwarf life. I never go around tall and smooth-featured. I am ever myself, always the same, I live one life alone. I have no other being inside me. And I recognize everything within me, nothing ever comes up from my inner depths, nothing there is shrouded in mystery. Therefore I do not fear the things which frighten them, the incoherent, the unknown, the mysterious. Such things do not exist for me. There is nothing "different" about me.”

Fearlessness Characteristic

Book:The Dwarf

Source: The Dwarf

“Malevolence, like love, needs few words.”

Unspoken Malevolence Unspoken Words Malevolent

Book:The Sibyl

Source: The Sibyl