Álomjáték (1963) 80% 2★

-You are a child of God…
-So are you.

– Now I am returning to my first hell. This was the second – and the worst. The greatest happiness is the greatest hell.

– Look at this one. Here are two prongs, but one pin. It is two, but it is one. If I straighten it out it is a single entity. If I bend it, it is two without ceasing to be one. That means: these two are one.

– The hairpin is the most complete of all created things.

– Well, aren't you surprised I'm black in the face?
– My son, I am fifty years old, and then one is no longer surprised.

– That is also perfectly correct according to the laws of logic, although it is insane. Then logic is insane. It certainly seems so. But if logic is insane the whole world is insane, and why should I sit here and teach you insanities? Let's find a bottle and have a drink and a swim.

– Is no one happy in this Paradise?

– „Why do people cry when they are sad?” I asked him.
– „Oh,” said the child, „because their eyes have to be washed sometimes so that they can see more clearly.”

– What is poetry?
– Not reality, but greater than reality. No dream, but waking dreams.
– And mortals think we poets only play, invent and fabricate.

– Suffering is the release, and death the liberator.