Quote by Bruno Schulz

“After tidying up, Adela would plunge the rooms into semidarkness by drawing down the linen blinds. All colors immediately fell an octave lower, the…

— Bruno Schulz

Under the imaginary table that separates me from my readers, don’t we secretly clasp each other’s hands?

— Bruno Schulz

“On those luminous mornings Adela returned from the market, like Pomona emerging from the flames of day, spilling from her basket the coloful beauty…

— Bruno Schulz

My ideal goal is to "mature" into childhood. That would be genuine maturity.

— Bruno Schulz

Theses officers were good friends, so it must have been a terrible argument, because the one who played chess with my father was so…

— Bruno Schulz

As we manipulate everyday words, we forget that they are fragments of ancient and eternal stories, that we are building our houses with broken…

— Bruno Schulz

“His unlived life worried him, tortured him, turning round and round inside him like an animal in a cage. In Dodo's body, the body…

— Bruno Schulz

“there is no dead matter," he taught us, "lifelessness is only a disguise behind which hide unknown forms of life. The range of these…

— Bruno Schulz

This enraged the other Nazi so much that the next morning he came to our house and he shot my father.

— Bruno Schulz

“After a brief moment of splendour, the whole enterprise too a sad turn.”

— Bruno Schulz

One thing must be avoided at all costs: narrow-mindedness, pedantry, dull pettiness.

— Bruno Schulz

“I harbored in my mind a sort of utopia about ‘an age of genius’ that supposedly existed in my life once upon a time,…

— Bruno Schulz