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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.»
Author: Michael Ende
«In their view, even leisure time had to be used to the full, so as to extract the maximum of entertainment and relaxation with the minimum of delay.»
Author: Michael Ende
«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.»
Author: Michael Ende
«Life holds one great but quite commonplace mystery. Though shared by each of us and known to all, seldom rates a second thought. That mystery, which most of us take for granted and never think twice about, is time.»
Author: Michael Ende
«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.»
Author: Michael Ende
«Calendars and clocks exist to measure time, but that signifies little because we all know that an hour can seem as eternity or pass in a flash, according to how we spend it.»
Author: Michael Ende
«All the beasts in Howling Forest were safe in their caves, nests, and burrows.»
Author: Michael Ende
«Guido clung to this thought like a drowning man clutching at a straw. He was rich and famous now, he told himself, and wasn't that what he'd always dreamed of?»
Author: Michael Ende
«Those who still think listening isn't an art should see if they can do it half as well.»
Author: Michael Ende
«Time is life itself, and life resides in the human heart.»
Author: Michael Ende