"Every sensitive person carries in himself old cities……" — Robert Walser
"Every sensitive person carries in himself old cities enclosed by ancient walls"
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18 Quotes by Robert Walser
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That is all very senseless, but this senselessness has a pretty mouth, and it smiles.
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To the question: How do the authors of sketches, stories and novels get along in life, the following answer can…
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With all my ideas and follies I could one day found a corporate company for the propagation of beautiful but…
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At least we should learn to understand our fellow beings, for we are powerless to stop their misery, their ignominy,…
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One is always half mad when one is shy of people.
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It doesn't take much to show love, but at some time or another in your, praise God, disastrous life you…
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The novel I am constantly writing is always the same one, and it might be described as a variously sliced-up…
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I am not here [in the sanitarium] to write, but to be mad.
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Listening to music, I always have exactly the same feeling: something’s missing. Never will I learn the cause of this…
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When we realize that words can destroy something good, wonderful, and dear, and that by keeping silent we can avoid…
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That lovely things exist is a lovely thought.
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Questions are usually more beautiful, more significant than their resolutions, which in fact never resolve them, are never sufficient to…
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More Ancient Quotes
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
— Hannah Arendt
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Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our…
— Margaret Atwood
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The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the…
— Saint Augustine
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Because we can't escape our ancient hunger to live close to nature, we encircle the house with lawns and gardens,…
— Diane Ackerman
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In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar…
— Enid Bagnold
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Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and…
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
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The number of stressors has multiplied exponentially: traffic, money, success, work/life balance, the economy, the environment, parenting, family conflict, relationships,…
— Andrew Bernstein
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In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names.
— Mortimer Adler
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The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To…
— Wendell Berry
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My own life in India, since I came to it in 1893 to make it my home, has been devoted…
— Annie Besant
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Britons are good, though often brutal, colonists where they come into relations with entirely uncivilized tribes whose past is so…
— Annie Besant
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Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.
— Ambrose Bierce
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