"Man was entering under false pretenses the sphere……" — Bruno Schulz
"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 and gain, the obvious fraud on nature, the excessive payment for a trick of genius, had to be offset by self-parody."
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Bruno Schulz
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14 Quotes by Bruno Schulz
Bruno Schulz has 14 quotes on this site.
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As we manipulate everyday words, we forget that they are fragments of ancient and eternal stories, that we are building…
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Under the imaginary table that separates me from my readers, don’t we secretly clasp each other’s hands?
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In our town there was a Gestapo officer who loved to play chess. After the occupation began, he found out…
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This enraged the other Nazi so much that the next morning he came to our house and he shot my…
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So, it comes to pass that, when we pursue an inquiry beyond a certain depth, we step out of the…
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There are things than cannot ever occur with any precision. They are too big and too magnificent to be contained…
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An event may be small and insignificant in its origin , and yet, when drawn close to one’s eye, it…
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...."the sound of a barrel organ rising from the deepest golden vein of the day; two or three bars of…
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My ideal goal is to "mature" into childhood. That would be genuine maturity.
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The days hardened with cold and boredom like last year's loaves of bread. One began to cut them with blunt…
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Animals! the object of insatiable interest, examples of the riddle of life, created, as it were, to reveal the human…
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Even in the depths of sleep, in which he had to satisfy his need for protection and love by curling…
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Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.
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I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something…
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Out of war nations acquire additional territory, if they are victorious. They just take it. This newly acquired territory promptly…
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I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War.
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Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.
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Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.
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Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to…
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Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
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To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been acquired…
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Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.
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Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to…
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