"That is all very senseless, but this senselessness……" — Robert Walser
"That is all very senseless, but this senselessness has a pretty mouth, and it smiles."
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Robert Walser
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18 Quotes by Robert Walser
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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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How uninteresting interesting things can become.
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