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Source: Their Eyes Were Watching God
Source: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
“She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.”
Source: Their Eyes Were Watching God
                                        
                                        original German version: 'Es fiel mir schwer, so plötzlich abzureisen, da ich dies Jahr vollständig in der Landschaft und dem Leben da oben aufging und nur fast ohne Bewusstsein zuzugreifen brauchte.' 
as quoted in: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: ein Künstlerleben in Selbstzeugnissen, Andreas Gabelmann; Hatje Cantz Verlag,  Ostfildern, Germany 2010, p. 41 (transl. Claire Albiez ) 
As Kirchner had been busying himself with nature images since the Summer of 1913, the outbreak of World War 1. brought him back to reality; as he describes here 
undated
                                    
“He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.”
 
                            
                        
                        
                        