Reality is as thin as paper and betrays with all its cracks its imitative character. — Bruno Schulz Copy Share Image
Lifelessness is only a disguise behind which hide unknown forms of life. — Bruno Schulz Copy Share Image
This enraged the other Nazi so much that the next morning he came to our house and he shot my father. — Bruno Schulz Copy Share Image
And one's wandering proved as sterile and pointless as the excitement produced by a close study of pornographic albums. — Bruno Schulz Albums Copy Share Image
My ideal goal is to "mature" into childhood. That would be genuine maturity. — Bruno Schulz Aging Copy Share Image
“After a brief moment of splendour, the whole enterprise too a sad turn.” — Bruno Schulz Brevity Copy Share Image
One thing must be avoided at all costs: narrow-mindedness, pedantry, dull pettiness. — Bruno Schulz Copy Share Image
Under the imaginary table that separates me from my readers, don’t we secretly clasp each other’s hands? — Bruno Schulz Books Copy Share Image
Yet what is to be done with events that have no place of their own in time; events that have occurred too… — Bruno Schulz Copy Share Image
So, it comes to pass that, when we pursue an inquiry beyond a certain depth, we step out of the field of… — Bruno Schulz Copy Share Image
“there is no dead matter," he taught us, "lifelessness is only a disguise behind which hide unknown forms of life. The range… — Bruno Schulz Life Copy Share Image
“The room was dark and velvety from the royal blue wallpaper with its gold pattern, but even here the echo of the… — Bruno Schulz Light Copy Share Image
“After we passed a few more houses, the street ceased to mantain any pretense of urbanity, like a man returning to his… — Bruno Schulz Peasant Copy Share Image
The days hardened with cold and boredom like last year's loaves of bread. One began to cut them with blunt knives without… — Bruno Schulz Appetite Copy Share Image
An event may be small and insignificant in its origin , and yet, when drawn close to one’s eye, it may open… — Bruno Schulz Events Copy Share Image
“It is strange how interiors reflect their dark turbulent past, how in their stillness bygone history tries to be reenacted, how the… — Bruno Schulz History Copy Share Image
“The cashier had long since left for home. By now she was probably bustling by an unmade bed that was waiting in… — Bruno Schulz Complicated world Copy Share Image
Ordinary facts are arranged within time, strung along its length as on a thread. There they have their antecedents and their consequences,… — Bruno Schulz Consequence Copy Share Image
Animals! the object of insatiable interest, examples of the riddle of life, created, as it were, to reveal the human being to… — Bruno Schulz Animal Copy Share Image
“The possibility suggests itself that no dreams, however absurd or senseless, are wasted in the universe. Embedded in the dream is a… — Bruno Schulz Dream Copy Share Image
Man was entering under false pretenses the sphere of incredible facilities, acquired too cheaply, below cost price, almost for nothing, and the… — Bruno Schulz Copy Share Image
“For ordinary books are like meteors. Each of them has only one moment, a moment when it soars screaming like the phoenix,… — Bruno Schulz Books Copy Share Image
“For us old-age pensioners, autumn is on the whole a dangerous season. He who knows how difficult it is for us to… — Bruno Schulz Autumn Copy Share Image
“A piactéren álló ház első emeleti lakásán nap mint nap végigvonult az egész hatalmas nyár: rezgő léglombikok csöndje, forró álmukat alvó fényes… — Bruno Schulz Copy Share Image
“I lead a life much below my level. Beyond the books, which trickle in slowly (I have to read what I can… — Bruno Schulz Books Copy Share Image
“It is not quite as dark here as we thought. On the contrary, the interior is pulsating with light. It is, of… — Bruno Schulz Darkness Copy Share Image
“Can you understand,' asked my father, 'the deep meaning of that weakness, that passion for colored tissue, for papier-mache, for distemper, for… — Bruno Schulz Copy Share Image
“Matter never makes jokes: it is always full of the tragically serious. Who dares to think that you can play with matter,… — Bruno Schulz Copy Share Image
“On those luminous mornings Adela returned from the market, like Pomona emerging from the flames of day, spilling from her basket the… — Bruno Schulz Apricots Copy Share Image
“Nimrod began to understand that what he was experiencing was, in spite of its appearance of novelty, something which had existed before–many… — Bruno Schulz Dogs Copy Share Image
“On a small square, wood is being cut for the city school. Cords of healthy, crisp timber are piled high and melt… — Bruno Schulz Human body Copy Share Image
“On Saturday afternoons I used to go for a walk with my mother. From the dusk of the hallway, we stepped at… — Bruno Schulz Gold Copy Share Image
“At such a time [at dawn] I would dream of being a baker who delivers bread, a fitter from the electric company,… — Bruno Schulz Business Copy Share Image
Theses officers were good friends, so it must have been a terrible argument, because the one who played chess with my father… — Bruno Schulz Angry Copy Share Image
“His unlived life worried him, tortured him, turning round and round inside him like an animal in a cage. In Dodo's body,… — Bruno Schulz Death Copy Share Image
Now the windows, blinded by the glare of the empty square, had fallen asleep. The balconies declared their emptiness to heaven; the… — Bruno Schulz Copy Share Image
In our town there was a Gestapo officer who loved to play chess. After the occupation began, he found out that my… — Bruno Schulz Chess Copy Share Image
“On that night the sky laid bare its internal construction in many sections which, like quasi-anatomical exhibits, showed the spirals and whorls… — Bruno Schulz Darkness Copy Share Image
…"the sound of a barrel organ rising from the deepest golden vein of the day; two or three bars of a chorus,… — Bruno Schulz Copy Share Image
How can one not succumb and allow one's courage to fail when everything is shut tight, when all meaningful things are walled… — Bruno Schulz Copy Share Image