Quote from Ted in Farhampton
Klaus: Ah, okay, Victoria. There is a word in German: Lebenslanger Schicksalsschatz. And the closest translation would be, "Lifelong Treasure of Destiny." And Victoria is wunderbar, but she is not my Lebenslanger Schicksalsschatz. She is my Beinaheleidenschaftsgegenstand, you know? You know wunderbar but you don't know Beinaheleidenschaftsgegenstand? That is something we learn in kindergarten. I'm sorry, "kindergarten" is the German word for... Ted: No, no, I know that one. Klaus: Oh, okay. But you don't know Beinaheleidenschaftsgegenstand? You are maddeningly inconsistent. It means, "the thing that is almost the thing that you want... but it's not quite." Das ist Victoria to me.