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A body, a grave, or a memory. What is gone first?

Everybody needs a wingman.

And when he held the dandelion in his hands he could feel for a second that what they say is true, that everything in the universe is connected.

He: Don't we have a full life? She: Yes, but I fear very soon we will feel very empty.

Plants are the easiest way of bringing something living into your life.

Can any tool be used as a weapon? Will we ever invent something that will not be misused for malicious deeds?

On that day Rupert understood that learning and teaching are fundamentally the same thing.

She has a short life of hard labour without holidays and career options. In comparison is your life really that bad?

She: Look, how beautiful! He: Beautiful? One does not need to be a botanist to see that this fruit is rotting! She: And one does not need to be a mycologist to see that this fungus is flourishing.

Beauty is the result of paying attention.

We cannot see more than one thing at once.

If there is too much light in your life you will miss the contrast.

Peter was quite surprised when he found out that there was a codified version of the law of nature.

He paused for a minute and wondered how long it would take him to look at every little detail of the tree in front of him. And this tree was just one out of many.

She: We still need to decide where to go for our free weekend. He: Yes, we do. Before we discuss it, could you open the window for a few minutes, please? She: Sure. I want to go to the Netherlands, by the way

On that day he learned two things; that beauty does not need to be in focus and that closeness does not require proximity.

Lying on their bed he realised that every thread of the linen was a barrier between them and that he lacked what it required to overcome them.

And as he was staring at the speaker in the even darker corner of the room he wondered if technology was maybe the monster that we have invited into our houses.

She: This pasta looks a bit like a handful of mealworms. He: It does, but it certainly tastes better. She: How can you be so certain of that?

Nobody is a better painter than mother nature herself.

Our, the human, world is a collection of things that are held in position by force.

It is the simple things in life that allow us to cope with its complexity.

On March 27, around 5pm, a witness discovered an unsecured piece of chipboard lying in the streets. He immediately called the emergency services. A team arrived at the scene only seven minutes later. They were able to prevent the worst and no one...

Kitsch is best described as the feeling left behind when you eat so many sweets that you feel sick.

At times we rediscover the value of things.

When was the last time that you have seem something truly new?

At which grade of decomposition does as rose stop to look beautiful? When does she stop to be a rose?

When the colder colour signals the warmer season to come.

Get inside, kids, playtime is over.

I stand by the idea that cultural inheritance is equally as strong, if not stronger, than the genetic one. Thank you, Oma and Opa. Miss you still!

The orthography of a word has no direct connection to its semantic, but is arbitrary.

The everyday life of the past, through the filter of nostalgia, is all too often misunderstood as some kind of prolonged holiday.

We love what grows, be detest what withers.

The true art of nature is not timing, but repetition.

Sometimes one has to turn the world upside down to see things for what they are.

Fred's mood changed immediately to the better when he saw that someone was offering free boulders to passer-byes.

In every group there are multiple communications happening at once. Have you ever tried to follow more than one of them simultaneously? If so, how do you dare to claim to understand the cause of anything?

Sometimes one hopes to turn around the life one lives or turn it off just for a day or two.

'Feeling orange' should be established as a term for those feelings that come with new beginnings.

Harry wondered if the new shop might be a bit too avantgardistic for this neighbourhood.

Cables are the chains that constrain our lives.

He found this photo of him hanging at a wall in his parent's house and wondered who the fuck this guy actually was and what he was like.

For a brief moment Thomas thought he understood the concept of five-dimensional space

The best camera is the one you have with you in the right moment.

The blinds lured him with the colour of Spring, but when he lifted them it was still Winter.

A paradox: neurons preserve the past by continuously changing.

Rob suddenly fully understood just how hard times had become when for the first time he saw a drunken stuffed animal begging in the streets.

He wanted to walk off into the dark, but then the sun rose.

When he woke up from this dream he went over to his desk, took two random coins from his wallet and placed them in a little bowl next to his bed. Then he searched through his files until he found his last will and made a little handwritten note...

How to ridicule the ridiculous?

Rüdiger thought that the fresco of Borja was maybe not the only piece of art that had suffered from a botched restoration attempt.

If you live in abundance you become blind to it, eventually.

The perfect form is one that stemmed and grew with the function.

On how many tables in the world you will find a napkin, two bottles of water and a calendar right now?

When Robert looked out of his window he understood that he lived in an ordinary prison.

There is a strange power in making things yourself.

Robert found that it was a lot harder to open new doors if he already knew what he would find behind them.

He stared at the ceiling until dawn broke and in the twilight he thought he saw a moon of Saturn flying by.

The daily ups and downs.

Jennifer could not help the feeling that something was staring at her.

My writing class teacher once told us that every writer should have a copy of a book by Dan Brown in her shelf. If one day she should doubt her own writing abilities she would just need to take it out, open a random page and real a paragraph to...

Categories; invented by the mind to make life easier by taking mental shortcuts, more often though leading to mistakes due to generalisation.

It is often said that entropy is an expression of the disorder, or randomness of a system, or of the lack of information about it.

Sometimes words are just padding.

Just look up every now and then.

He sat on the toilet and looked out of the window. The world looked like a painting and with like so many paintings he had no idea what the intention of the artist was.

Waiting in the car he was grateful for the rain and how it protected him from the others.

Nervennahrung f (colloq.), German, idiomatic, lit: nerve food or nerve nutrition; food consumed to comfort in situations of stress or discomfort; usually of the sweet type, like chocolate or ice cream. Sometimes savory like potato crisps.

For a split second he thought his bag was smiling at him.

She: I think I understand now why we like cats so much. He: Now why is that, then? She: They always look like they are having the sweetest of dreams.

The further things are away from us, the harder it gets to see what they are. Yet we form opinions.

Does the dark side have better biscuits or are biscuits with a dark side better biscuits?

When there is just no enough workspace in the workplace.

On the way back from the graveyard Harold saw a branch that carried a young bud next to a rotting leaf from the previous year. This sight gave him comfort.

We too often forget about the things that are holding the world together.

The distance between your fingers and the keyboard can be harder to overcome than the one from here to the moon.

Like most people Reginald just wanted to become rich. When he was about to blow his nose he became rather angry that he hadn't invented something like the disposable tissue yet.

He: Where have you been? She: Some corner of the world.

Nationalism stinks.

When she slammed the door behind her, the turbulence snuffed out the candle.

You can translate peace into as many languages you like, but you will fail to explain it. This strive for something for which we have words, but cannot find the right words to describe, is a good proof that we all believe in something.

Just when she thought 'will it ever stop raining?' it turned into snow.

Sebastian kept the growth on the back of his hand a secret from his doctor, because he hoped that it might one day kill him.

Tunnelblick is the inability to take notice of what is happening around you because you focus too much of what is lying ahead .

Brian woke up from this lucid dream about a sunny day at the beach and the first thing he saw was a piece of driftwood on his pillow.

Persephone had always been somewhat taller than her older sisters, but this time it became very apparent.

And on that day pineapple Pedro left his shelf in the supermarket behind and went out into the world.

He: Do you think hand-knitted socks are uncool as a present? She: Definitely! If you are under 20 or over 60, that is. But at any time in between they are just the most wonderful present one can receive.

While sitting at his favourite spot Gerald thought that, unlike sex, sitting by the lake is better to be enjoyed alone.

Papier ist geduldig , German, idiomatic, lit: paper is patient ; Meaning: Statements on paper can be arbitrary, random or wrong. 'Not everything written/printed on paper is true', 'anybody can write arbitrary statements on paper' or 'you should not...

You can't download nature.

Before she left him, his, now former, girlfriend had spread one of his jumpers across the bed.

She: I can timetravel. He: How? She: I imagine how things turn out and by that I look into the future. He: Well, you can only imagine one possible outcome, you cannot know if it will come true. She: Yes, but considering that all possible futures...

Behind his sofa Claudio discovered some wild growth that did not resemble anything he had seen before.

When the waiter brought him the ice cream he had ordered, Tom wondered if it had been returned at another table. It was just a hunch, but something seemed not to be quite right.

Can you cross another path without interfering?

When walking past the gate Simon saw a single cherry still hanging from the tree in his front garden. It obviously had missed its chance to drop from its branch and grow into a tree of its own. He became quite sad when he realized that he was not...

Martin got the feeling that he was over-prepared for the problem at hand.

When Stephen was given the homework to write an essay about the meaning of life he knew that he would be done rather quickly.

On her Sunday walk Heather found a street that would be the perfect place for her new home.

Suddenly historian Roberta realized that for the last twelve years she had placed her hot pots and pans on an old Mexican artifact.

When Ralph had turned out the light he noticed a new constellation on his desk, emitted by the stand-by lights. He named it 'the Elephant' and went to bed quite proud of himself.

When they stood in front of a shopping window she pointed at a porcelain figurine and said 'Now that is beautiful!' and for him she immediately became a lot less beautiful.