“I know that after my death a pile of rubbish will be heaped on my grave, but the wind of History will sooner or later sweep it away without mercy.”

“You know how it is, you go away for a week and all the work piles up like a big heap of mail holding your front door closed.”

“Eros has shaken my mind,
wind sweeping down the mountain on oaks”

“A person seeing (visiting) my grave deserves my intercession. And a person who visits me after my death is like a person who visited me during my lifetime.”

“The death rate is the same for us as for anybody … one person, one death, sooner or later.”

“I drifted past heliotropic rubbish-heaps, elderly/white houses.’ ( The Bandra Medical Store )”

“Death comes to us all sooner or later. We cannot escape it.”

“One of the peculiar features of history is that time always erodes advantage. Every invention sooner or later erodes advantage. Every invention sooner or later leads to a counter-invention.”

“Nature, with equal mind,
Sees all her sons at play
Sees man control the wind,
The wind sweep man away.”

“[From Minna after stabbing Pauline von Lindorf to death]: Yes, I have killed her at last. They thought I did not know her, but I did. She took away my father's heart from me, and would have taken away my husband’s; but I have killed her at last.”