“We must make a journey around the world to see if a back door has perhaps been left open.” -- Heinrich von Kleist
#Journey #Doors #World
“In Santiago, the capital of the kingdom of Chile, at the moment of the great earthquake of 1647 in which many thousands lost their lives, a young Spaniard called Jeronimo Rugera was standing beside one of the pillars in the prison to which he had been committed on a criminal charge, and he was about to hang himself.” -- Heinrich von Kleist
#Earthquakes #Kingdoms #Pillars
“I write only because I cannot stop.” -- Heinrich von Kleist
#Writing
“To live in a place where I am not, and in a time that is either past or not yet come.” -- Heinrich von Kleist
#Past
