Quote by Daniel Kehlmann Download Open image ““It's precisely the sense that we're different that makes us so banal.”” — Daniel Kehlmann ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“The banal perception - all the most profound perceptions are banal, at most one man finds a somewhat more original expression for it than… — Victor Klemperer Copy Share Image
“What happens to us either happens to everyone or only to us: in the first instance it's banal; in the second it's incomprehensible.” — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“We are what we are. If you are different, it's because you are special. Don't let anyone tell you differently.” — John Inman Copy Share Image
“Existence is in a way so banal, you may as well try and make a kind of grandeur of it” — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“Instead of accepting ourselves as we are, we try to imitate what we see around us.” — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“It would be nice if we were different people but we are not different people. We are ourselves and we are sure as hell… — Margaret Laurence Copy Share Image
“Every person is different. Yet often, those differences are not understood or valued by others.” — H. Norman Wright Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the things that don't seem like much much, become the very ones that define us.” — Bibiana Krall Copy Share Image
“In fact, being a unique individual is as much of a farce as trying to be like everyone else. Maybe more.” — Nora Raleigh Baskin Copy Share Image
“Have you ever noticed' I said 'how everyone says they want to be different, but as soon as they meet someone who really is… — Charles De Lint Copy Share Image
When I look at life I try to be as agnostic and unmetaphysical as possible. So I have to admit that, most probably, we… — Daniel Kehlmann Copy Share Image
“Sweat was running down my face. The next turn wasn’t too bad, and I noticed an old barn on the roadside, the roof caved-in,… — Daniel Kehlmann Copy Share Image
A neglect of one's sentimental education early in life could bear the most unfortunate fruit. — Daniel Kehlmann Copy Share Image
It was both odd and unjust, a real example of pitiful arbitrariness of existance, that you were born into a particular time & held… — Daniel Kehlmann Copy Share Image
You say fate is almost indispensable to literature - I think it's completely indispensable, at least in a novel, because a novel always has… — Daniel Kehlmann Copy Share Image
When I write a book I'm always questioning the project as a whole. I always feel I might have to just throw it away… — Daniel Kehlmann Copy Share Image
Also, whenever you have direct speech, and I don't quite know why, but it always gets better in English. Dialogue, the flow of dialogue,… — Daniel Kehlmann Copy Share Image
One of the points where the art world is at its most metaphysical is in this weird aspect of the power of the expert.… — Daniel Kehlmann Copy Share Image
“But why people? I asked. What does he care about people? He’s a bear.” — Daniel Kehlmann Copy Share Image
Usually I work out the plot before I start. This time I thought: Writers always talk about not knowing where a book is going… — Daniel Kehlmann Copy Share Image
For a while I never show anybody what I'm writing, and during that time I need the feeling that publishing is only an option.… — Daniel Kehlmann Copy Share Image
German can take a lot more pathos than English can. When you say "pathetic" in English it's a disparaging term, but when you say… — Daniel Kehlmann Copy Share Image
