Theodor Fontane:
(Neuruppin, 30 december 1819 – Berlijn, 20 september 1898) was een Duits schrijver van balladen, romans en recensies, op de overgang van het realisme naar het naturalisme.
There are many roosters who think that the sun rises because of them.
The magic is always in the details.
Rough boards, like rough people, are closest to nature.
The most human thing we have is language, and we have it in order to speak.
A good saying is the truth of an entire book in a single sentence.
Nothing lifts the spirits like the feeling of being loved.
Happiness is not a gift from God, it is only a loan.
Peace, quiet, a sofa and a cup of tea are more important than anything else.
Some people are lucky enough to find an idyll everywhere: and if they don’t find it, they create it themselves.
You are not just an individual, you belong to a whole.
I ask you, what is beauty? One of the most vague concepts.
There are no incontestable truths at all, and if there were any, they would be boring.
After all, we become what others think we are.
