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Michael Ende Quote: “My will can control anything that’s empty.”

51. “My will can control anything that’s empty.”

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Michael Ende Quote: “No architect troubled to design houses that suited people who were to live in them, because that would have meant building a whole range of different houses. It was far cheaper and, above all, timesaving to make them identical.”

52. “No architect troubled to design houses that suited people who were to live in them, because that would have meant building a whole range of different houses. It was far cheaper and, above all, timesaving to make them identical.”

— Michael Ende

Michael Ende Quote: “Anyone who still thinks that listening is nothing special should simply try to do it half as well.”

53. “Anyone who still thinks that listening is nothing special should simply try to do it half as well.”

— Michael Ende

Michael Ende Quote: “Nothing can change for them, because they themselves can’t change anymore.”

54. “Nothing can change for them, because they themselves can’t change anymore.”

— Michael Ende

Michael Ende Quote: “It was a wonderful feeling, a sense of release and boundless freedom that he had never known before. He was beyond the reach of all the things that had weighed him down and hemmed him in.”

55. “It was a wonderful feeling, a sense of release and boundless freedom that he had never known before. He was beyond the reach of all the things that had weighed him down and hemmed him in.”

— Michael Ende

Michael Ende Quote: “The human world is full of weak-minded people, who think they’re as clever as can be and are convinced that it’s terribly important to persuade even the children that Fanstastica doesn’t exist.”

56. “The human world is full of weak-minded people, who think they’re as clever as can be and are convinced that it’s terribly important to persuade even the children that Fanstastica doesn’t exist.”

— Michael Ende

Michael Ende Quote: “Yes, she thought about death because she had discovered something else as well: there are certain treasures that kill you if you can’t share them with others.”

57. “Yes, she thought about death because she had discovered something else as well: there are certain treasures that kill you if you can’t share them with others.”

— Michael Ende

Michael Ende Quote: “The Glory was entrusted to you, you weren’t given permission to pass it on as you see fit.”

58. “The Glory was entrusted to you, you weren’t given permission to pass it on as you see fit.”

— Michael Ende

Michael Ende Quote: “There are many kinds of delusion.”

59. “There are many kinds of delusion.”

— Michael Ende

Michael Ende Quote: “The House of Change... is bigger inside than out.”

60. “The House of Change... is bigger inside than out.”

— Michael Ende

Michael Ende Quote: “People? People have been obsolete for years, They’ve made the world a place where there’s no room left for their own kind.”

61. “People? People have been obsolete for years, They’ve made the world a place where there’s no room left for their own kind.”

— Michael Ende

Michael Ende Quote: “One night I saw the moon, shining so big and round, and I tried to grab it out of the sky.”

62. “One night I saw the moon, shining so big and round, and I tried to grab it out of the sky.”

— Michael Ende

Michael Ende Quote: “While progressing in this way, with a dirty street ahead of him and a clean one behind, he often had grand ideas. They were ideas that couldn’t easily be put into words, though – ideas as hard to define as a half-remembered scent or a colour seen in a dream.”

63. “While progressing in this way, with a dirty street ahead of him and a clean one behind, he often had grand ideas. They were ideas that couldn’t easily be put into words, though – ideas as hard to define as a half-remembered scent or a colour seen in a dream.”

— Michael Ende

Michael Ende Quote: “He’s a good old sort. If only he weren’t plumb crazy!”

64. “He’s a good old sort. If only he weren’t plumb crazy!”

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Michael Ende Quote: “Most of the time she could slip into other people, so to speak, and discover what they really meant and who they actually were behind their words. But she couldn’t do it with this visitor. No matter how often she tried to understand his thoughts, she always got the feeling that she was falling into empty darkness, as if there weren’t even a person there at all.”

65. “Most of the time she could slip into other people, so to speak, and discover what they really meant and who they actually were behind their words. But she couldn’t do it with this visitor. No matter how often she tried to understand his thoughts, she always got the feeling that she was falling into empty darkness, as if there weren’t even a person there at all.”

— Michael Ende

Michael Ende Quote: “Und wer die Zeit der Menschen besitzt, der hat unbegrenzte Macht!”

66. “Und wer die Zeit der Menschen besitzt, der hat unbegrenzte Macht!”

— Michael Ende

Michael Ende Quote: “There are people who can never go to Fantastica,” said Mr. Coreander, “and others who can, but who stay there forever. And there are just a few who fo to fantastica and come back. Like you. And they make both world well again.”

67. “There are people who can never go to Fantastica,” said Mr. Coreander, “and others who can, but who stay there forever. And there are just a few who fo to fantastica and come back. Like you. And they make both world well again.”

— Michael Ende

Michael Ende Quote: “When it comes to controlling humans, there is no better instrument than lies.”

68. “When it comes to controlling humans, there is no better instrument than lies.”

— Michael Ende

Michael Ende Quote: “Solo su verdadero nombre hace reales a todos los seres y todas las cosas. Un nombre falso lo convierte todo en irreal. Eso es lo que hace la mentira.”

69. “Solo su verdadero nombre hace reales a todos los seres y todas las cosas. Un nombre falso lo convierte todo en irreal. Eso es lo que hace la mentira.”

— Michael Ende

Michael Ende Quote: “Some think their only hope of happiness lies in being someone else, and spend their whole lives traveling place to place.”

70. “Some think their only hope of happiness lies in being someone else, and spend their whole lives traveling place to place.”

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Michael Ende Quote: “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.”

71. “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.”

— Michael Ende

Michael Ende Quote: “Your life is short, son. Ours is long. Much too long. But we both live in time. You a short time. We a long time. The Childlike Empress has always been there. But she’s not old. She has always been young. She still is. Her life isn’t measured by time, but by names. She needs a new name. She keeps needing new names.”

72. “Your life is short, son. Ours is long. Much too long. But we both live in time. You a short time. We a long time. The Childlike Empress has always been there. But she’s not old. She has always been young. She still is. Her life isn’t measured by time, but by names. She needs a new name. She keeps needing new names.”

— Michael Ende

Michael Ende Quote: “The Childlike Empress has always been there. But she’s not old. She has always been young. She still is. Her life isn’t measured by time, but by names.”

73. “The Childlike Empress has always been there. But she’s not old. She has always been young. She still is. Her life isn’t measured by time, but by names.”

— Michael Ende

Michael Ende Quote: “The Circle of Eternal Return was an end without an end.”

74. “The Circle of Eternal Return was an end without an end.”

— Michael Ende

Michael Ende Quote: “Luckdragons are creatures of air, warmth, and pure joy. Despite their great size, they are as light as a summer cloud, and consequently need no wings for flying. They swim in the air of heaven as fish swim in water.”

75. “Luckdragons are creatures of air, warmth, and pure joy. Despite their great size, they are as light as a summer cloud, and consequently need no wings for flying. They swim in the air of heaven as fish swim in water.”

— Michael Ende

Michael Ende Quote: “We’re old, son, much too old. Lived long enough. Seen too much. When you know as much as we do, nothing matters. Things just repeat. Day and night, summer and winter. The world is empty and aimless. Everything circles around.”

76. “We’re old, son, much too old. Lived long enough. Seen too much. When you know as much as we do, nothing matters. Things just repeat. Day and night, summer and winter. The world is empty and aimless. Everything circles around.”

— Michael Ende

Michael Ende Quote: “Bastian struggled for air. His heart pounded, it was not big enough for so great a longing.”

77. “Bastian struggled for air. His heart pounded, it was not big enough for so great a longing.”

— Michael Ende

Michael Ende Quote: “You’d really do that?’ he blurted out. ‘You’d really set a hungry werewolf free? Do you know what that means? Nobody would be safe from me.’ ‘I know,’ said Atreyu. ‘But I’m Nobody. Why should I be afraid of you?”

78. “You’d really do that?’ he blurted out. ‘You’d really set a hungry werewolf free? Do you know what that means? Nobody would be safe from me.’ ‘I know,’ said Atreyu. ‘But I’m Nobody. Why should I be afraid of you?”

— Michael Ende

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