"The Mayor of Deutschkreuz admitted that all attempts had failed." "Attempts to do something reasonable with the Deuschkreutz Castle" "In other words, to make the castle regain reason again." "Even the attempt to cultivate mushrooms in the cellars had been unsuccessrul." "For this reason, the building was now up for sale." "By the end of the war, the Russians had taken everything, except the wall decorations." "Since then, the windows have been boarded-up with wooden planks and every year the courtyard is more overgrown with grass and wheat." "The Russians didn't know the castle contained a psychiatric hospital but they were soon to find out, just as the others had done." "THE UNPRECEDENTED DEFENCE OF THE DEUTSCHKREUTZ FORTRESS" "One can protect oneself from the weather by staying underground." "I don't think it's too much to ask for a respectable castle to have a secret passage." "Don't you think so too?" "Maybe the secret passage exists." "It's just that no one remembers where the entrance is." "Otherwise, where do the children come from?" "The knights' ladies were always watched over closely, but... somehow twins were born." "And no one knew where the bastards came from." "Nowadays, all one can do is hide in the places which moralists haven't already shut away and sealed." "Yet no one mentions the fact that we all feel cold and that we can catch illnesses." "But I'd like to make a point." "People who live undercover in houses save on rent!" "If something falls onto a virgin's lap, it's the birth of a new life." "This was the favorite motto of the Counts of Gojar, who had liver here." "They were like angry dogs." "Those counts, I mean." "One of their ancestresses was arrested three hundred years ago because she'd had the pretty young girls killed." "She believed bathing in their blood would make her skin beautiful." "No, it's true, there is still proof of this." "If she hadn't been rich and powerful, she wouldn't have been able to do so." "One does what one can." "That's how it is, one does what one can with the means one has." "If something falls onto one's lap, something begins to grow." "One cannot back away from the gifts that one receives." "He who hasn't read the Bible doesn't know how to play the game:" ""Abraham, your beard is wet"" "You keep at a metre's distance from one another and who strikes... with the wet cloth says, "Abraham, your beard is wet"." "The first one to laugh is the loser." "Sneering corpses... must be informed about the seriousness of the situation." "The fact of being one in front of the other, armed only with sword and shield, helped." "One has to be prepared for today's situation, God alone can't help." "It's evident: he who isn't armed in time, won't have an enemy." "No one can complain afterwards about being disadvantaged." "Yet everybody complains afterwards, it's always the way." "The best thing is the nine-days week, because nine is easier to divide by five than by seven... and nine days make more of an impression than seven." "The greatest advantage is that there's no longer a Sunday." "This is very important, because on that day, no one would work." "You see, this is just what the enemy is waiting for." "The enemy waits for a chance like this to make his move." "Fifty years ago, the Counts of Gojar got hold of the girls in the fields and then came here to have a good time." "Once they undressed some of them and made them bathe in wine." "After that they sold the wine." "Yes they actually sold it!" "Good Heavens!" "One must always be careful." "Especially with horses, with large dogs and things of that kind" "The enemy always feigns ingnorance and sends agents in disguise." "Therefore, anyone without identification has to be eliminated." "The most dangerous thing because it's the hardest to find out, is when a man dresses up like a man, with the skin of another man." "All this has already happened." "It's all happened before." "something's crossed my mind..." "I'll exlplain it properly:" "plum stones have to be wrapped in linen sacks." "They can only be used if they have been aged properly." "They have to be kept in a dry place, otherwise they will be of no use." "There have been some great accomplishments in the building of fortifications." "One waits and waits and nothing happens." "Nothing." "A baker makes bread at night because at seven in the morning it has to be in the shop." "I say:" "the first task of the enemy is to commit enemy actions." "This has to be said!" "An enemy who abandons someone who is defending himself is a swine." "Everybody has the right to defend themselves." "One has to have the chance to establish oneself." "When the enemy is out of sight everything is all right, one mustn't think there is no enemy." "It's a known fact since the days of the red indians." "Every bush can be an enemy in disguise and what's more never trust the grass nor the rocks." "If all this makes one want to give up then it's treachery... when others are not so willing." "He who loves must die." "Of course, there may be some disagreement but what can you do when the enemy, that swine, abandons you?" "Some prefer to be provoked verbally, others to be called back, but..." "One needs to decide what will have more of an effect." "The best has been done." "All that's left is as a last warning, to give off some signals." "If the enemy abandons you again, ignoring all the signals... well, then he is responsible for the consequences." "One cannot await one's chance until one is old and shaky." "Attacking is good, living is better, even when one lives in poverty." "He who is alive can own a cow." "He who waits too long has to pay the consequences." "You see, no noe can mislead me on this." "Wars are more necessary than ever." "Even being defeated is better than nothing."