Fantastic literature has been especially prominent in times of unrest, when the older values have been overthrown to make way for the new; it has often accompanied or predicted change, and served to shake up rational Complacency, challenging reason and reminding man of his darker nature. Its popularity has had its ups and downs, and it has always been the preserve of a small literary minority. As a natural challenger of classical values, it is rarely part of a culture's literary mainstream, expressing the spirit of the age; but it is an important dissenting voice, a reminder of the vast mysteries of existence, sometimes truly metaphysical in scope, but more often merely riddling.
Franz Rottensteiner
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I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t... STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite STEPHEN CHBOSKY You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE. STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st... STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... C. JOYBELL C. I was very grateful to have heard it again. Because I guess we all forget sometimes. And I think eve... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Each man lives in his own universe and when he dies the world is over BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have. 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DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foo... CHARLES DICKENS We die a day at a time BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA I was suddenly very aware of the fact it was me standing up in that tunnel with the wind over my fac... STEPHEN CHBOSKY The only perspective is to really be there. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I didn't feel like reading that night, so I went downstairs and watched a half-hour long commercial ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Why is England manufacturing bigger and better airplanes and bombs and at the same time churning out... ANNE FRANK For starters, that’s a rather simple principle of Time Travel right there – and according to the... CHRISTINA ENGELA A crook and crafty rules the place where the majority of the population is either hypocrites or fool... ANUJ SOMANY Nature’s law is such that it metes out its justice to everyone as they deserve by giving each pers... 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FRANZ KAFKA From the true antagonist, illimitable courage is transmitted to you FRANZ KAFKA Writing is a sweet, wonderful reward FRANZ KAFKA All knowledge, the totality of all questions and all answers is contained in the dog FRANZ KAFKA We are sinful not merely because we have eaten of the tree of knowledge, but also because we have no... FRANZ KAFKA Evil is whatever distracts. FRANZ KAFKA It is impossible to imagine a more complete fusion with nature than that of the Gypsy. FRANZ LISZT Furthermore, the study of the present surroundings is insufficient: the history of the people, the i... FRANZ BOAS Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in mo... FRANZ LISZT If the French were German in their essence, then how the Germans would admire them! FRANZ KAFKA The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule,... FRANZ GRILLPARZER How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is n... FRANZ KAFKA Like everything genuine, its inner life guarantees its truth. All works of art created by truthful m... FRANZ MARC Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out... FRANZ GRILLPARZER The indestructible is one: it is each individual human being and, at the same time, it is common to ... FRANZ KAFKA What I myself experience is indescribable gratitude in the face of God's perpetual and preemptiv... FRANZ WRIGHT One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die. This life appears unbea... FRANZ KAFKA I am in no way different from anyone else, that my predicament, my sense of aloneness or isolation m... FRANZ WRIGHT Who has the gift to recognize beauty, will not live long FRANZ KAFKA Real men are sadly lacking in this world, for when they are put to the test they prove worthless. FRANZ LISZT When I was nine, I started reading Homer. I would get up at four o'clock in the morning, before ... FRANZ WRIGHT Ideas are not thoughts; the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to... FRANZ GRILLPARZER To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides ... FRANZ GRILLPARZER Supreme serenity still remains the Ideal of great Art. The shapes and transitory forms of life are b... FRANZ LISZT We don't dispute that unified parliamentary groups can exist, but it must be clear that coalition ta... FRANZ MUENTEFERING