Bruno Schulz Quotes

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• As we manipulate everyday words, we forget that they are fragments of ancient and eternal stories, that we are building our houses with broken pieces…
• Under the imaginary table that separates me from my readers, don’t we secretly clasp each other’s hands?
• In our town there was a Gestapo officer who loved to play chess. After the occupation began, he found out that my father was the…
• This enraged the other Nazi so much that the next morning he came to our house and he shot my father.
• So, it comes to pass that, when we pursue an inquiry beyond a certain depth, we step out of the field of psychological categories and…
• There are things than cannot ever occur with any precision. They are too big and too magnificent to be contained in mere facts. They are…
• An event may be small and insignificant in its origin , and yet, when drawn close to one’s eye, it may open in its center…
• ...."the sound of a barrel organ rising from the deepest golden vein of the day; two or three bars of a chorus, played on a…
• Man was entering under false pretenses the sphere of incredible facilities, acquired too cheaply, below cost price, almost for nothing, and the disproportion between outlay…
• My ideal goal is to "mature" into childhood. That would be genuine maturity.
• The days hardened with cold and boredom like last year's loaves of bread. One began to cut them with blunt knives without appetite, with a…
• Animals! the object of insatiable interest, examples of the riddle of life, created, as it were, to reveal the human being to man himself, displaying…
• Even in the depths of sleep, in which he had to satisfy his need for protection and love by curling himself up into a trembling…
• Theses officers were good friends, so it must have been a terrible argument, because the one who played chess with my father was so angry…

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