Michael Ende Quotes

All the world's misfortunes stemmed from the countless untruths, both deliberate and unintentional, which people told because of haste or carelessness.

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When it comes to controlling human beings, there is no better instrument than lies. Because you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts.

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The odd thing was that, no matter how much time he saved, he never had any to spare; in some mysterious way, it simply vanished.

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All the beasts in Howling Forest were safe in their caves, nests, and burrows.

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Those who still think listening isn't an art should see if they can do it half as well.

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He tried to remember Moon Child's eyes, but was no longer able to. He was sure of only one thing: that her glance had passed through his eyes and down into his heart. He could still feel the burning trail it had left behind. That glance, he felt, was embedded in his heart, and there it glittered like a mysterious jewel. And in a strange and wonderful way it hurt. Even if Bastian had wanted to, he couldn't have defended himself against this thing that had happened to him. However, he didn't want to. Oh no, not for anything in the world would he have parted with that jewel. All he wanted was to go on reading, to see Moon Child again, to be with her. IT never occurred to him that he was getting into the most unusual and perhaps the most dangerous of adventures. But even if he had known this, he wouldn't have dreamed of shutting the book.

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One may enter the literary parlor via just about any door, be it the prison door, the madhouse door, or the brothel door. There is but one door one may not enter it through, which is the child room door. The critics will never forgive you such. The great Rudyard Kipling is one of a number of people to have suffered from this. I keep wondering to myself what this peculiar contempt towards anything related to childhood is all about.

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Yra didel, bet visiškai kasdieniška paslaptis. Visi žmon?s su ja susij, kiekvienas j? žino, bet tik nedaugelis apie j? Pagalvoja. Dauguma papras?iausiai su ja taikstosi ir n? Kiek nesistebi. Toji paslaptis - tai laikas. Jam matuoti yra kalendoriai ir laikrodžiai, bet tas nedaug k? Sako, nes kiekvienas žino, kad kartais viena valanda atrodo kaip amžinyb, o kitais kartais ji prab?ga kaip akimirka - nelygu, k? žmogus t? Valand? Patiria. Laikas yra gyvenimas, o gyvenimo b?stas - žmogaus širdis.

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