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> [Kitsch generates pseudonovelty with no new insight into reality, or else does not concern itself at all with the new and produces its effects with more or less academic eclecticism.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-broch/kitsch-generates-pseudonovelty-with-no-new-insight-into-reality-or/)

[Hermann Broch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-broch/)

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## More by Hermann Broch

> [“IN the year 1888 Herr von Pasenow was seventy, and there were people who felt an extraordinary and inexplicable repulsion when they saw him…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-broch/in-the-year-1888-herr-von-pasenow-was-seventy-and-there-were-people/)

[Hermann Broch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-broch/)

> [“Children have a more restricted and yet a more intense feeling for nature than grown-ups.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-broch/children-have-a-more-restricted-and-yet-a-more-intense-feeling-for/)

[Hermann Broch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-broch/)

> [The world has always gone through periods of madness so as to advance a bit on the road to reason.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-broch/the-world-has-always-gone-through-periods-of-madness-so-as-to-advance/)

[Hermann Broch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-broch/)

> [“Orpheus chose to be the leader of mankind. Ah, not even Orpheus had attained such a goal, not even his immortal greatness had justified…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-broch/orpheus-chose-to-be-the-leader-of-mankind-ah-not-even-orpheus-had/)

[Hermann Broch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-broch/)

> [A kitsch novel describes the world not as it really is, but as it is hoped and feared to be.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-broch/a-kitsch-novel-describes-the-world-not-as-it-really-is-but-as-it-is/)

[Hermann Broch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-broch/)

> [Are we, then, insane because we have not gone mad?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-broch/are-we-then-insane-because-we-have-not-gone-mad/)

[Hermann Broch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-broch/)

> [“… for overstrong was the command to hold fast to each smallest particle of time, to the smallest particle of every circumstance, and to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-broch/for-overstrong-was-the-command-to-hold-fast-to-each-smallest-particle/)

[Hermann Broch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-broch/)

> [“It is as if Protestantism by clinging to the Scripture wished to preserve the last faint echoes of God’s Word in a world that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-broch/it-is-as-if-protestantism-by-clinging-to-the-scripture-wished-to/)

[Hermann Broch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-broch/)

> [“WAS THERE STILL SOMETHING MURMURING? WAS IT still the kind murmuring of Plotius, protecting and kind and strong? oh, Plotius, oh, that it might…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-broch/was-there-still-something-murmuring-was-it-still-the-kind-murmuring/)

[Hermann Broch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-broch/)

> [“it is always he, unfortunate wretch, who assumes the rôle of executioner in the process of value-disintegration, and on the day when the trumpets…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-broch/it-is-always-he-unfortunate-wretch-who-assumes-the-r-le-of/)

[Hermann Broch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-broch/)

> [“Driven by that extraordinary oppression which falls on every human being when, childhood over, he begins to divine that he is fated to go…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-broch/driven-by-that-extraordinary-oppression-which-falls-on-every-human/)

[Hermann Broch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-broch/)

> [The techniques of kitsch, which are based on imitation, are rational and operate according to formulas; the remain rational even when their result has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-broch/the-techniques-of-kitsch-which-are-based-on-imitation-are-rational/)

[Hermann Broch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-broch/)

> [“A man who sacrifices himself must be a decent chap.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-broch/a-man-who-sacrifices-himself-must-be-a-decent-chap/)

[Hermann Broch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-broch/)

> [Kitsch tends to wallow in beauty - its shortcoming is not aesthetic, but ethical](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-broch/kitsch-tends-to-wallow-in-beauty-its-shortcoming-is-not-aesthetic-but/)

[Hermann Broch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-broch/)

> [Romanticism is the mother of kitsch and that there are moments when the child becomes so like its mother that one cannot differentiate between…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-broch/romanticism-is-the-mother-of-kitsch-and-that-there-are-moments-when/)

[Hermann Broch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-broch/)

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