
Notebook, 1894
Original engl.: "If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat."
Notebook
The people who were trying to make this world worse are not taking the day off. Why should I?
Response, after being asked why he went ahead and performed in the concert "Smile Jamaica", two days after he, his wife and manager were wounded inside his home after an assault by unknown gunmen, thought to be politically motivated (5 December 1976), as quoted in Bob Marley The Father of Music (2010) by Jean-Pierre Hombasch, p. 5
Variante: The people that are trying to make the world worse never take a day off, why should I?
Notebook, 1894
Original engl.: "If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat."
Notebook
„Warum versuchst du Kunst zu verstehen? Versuchen Sie, ein Vogellied zu verstehen?“
„Versuche nicht, die Welt zu verändern, versuche, dass die Welt dich nicht verändert.“
„Warum ich Welt und Menschheit nicht verfluche? // Weil ich den Menschen spüre, den ich suche.“
Lyrik-Nachlese. Die Wüste. Aus: Ausgewählte Werke. Band 1. Berlin: Volk und Welt, 1978. Seite 281
Demian, (an den Anfang gestelltes Motto des Ich-Erzählers Emil Sinclair), GW Bd. 5, Suhrkamp Verlag, 1987, S. 7
„Warum soll ich die Welt bezwingen, wenn ich sie verzaubern kann.“
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