“We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged”

“Where words leave off, music begins.”

“With his night-cap and his night-shirt tatters,He botches up the loop-holes in the structure of the world.”

“The music at a wedding procession always reminds me of the music of soldiers going into battle.”

“Lieb Liebchen, leg s Hndchen aufs Herze mein; -Ach, hrst du, wies pochet im Kmmerlein,Da hauset ein Zimmermann schlimm und arg,Der zimmert mir einen Totensarg.Es hmmert und klopfet bei Tag und bei ...”

“Perfumes are the feelings of flowers.”

“Books can not be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory... In this war, we know, books are weapons. And it is a part of your dedication always to ma...”

“Book burnings. Always the forerunners. Heralds of the stake, the ovens, the mass graves.”

“Better watch her. She burns other people's books.”

“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of wi...”

“My dear,Find what you love and let it kill you.Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness.Let it kill you and let it devour your remains....”

“If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled?”

“In Germany, people will agree in theory that prostitution should be legal, but they usually won't admit that they themselves have ever gone to a prostitute: "Yeah, it should be legal, and I have no...”

“They need only to look at him, hear his name, and the last of reason goes up in smoke. They sink into a state of befuddlement.”

“In 1939, Hitler expanded the German Navy and, in violation of the Munich Agreement, occupied parts of the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia. Germany then established the Protectorate of Bohemia and Mor...”