"When we realize that words can destroy something……" — Robert Walser
"When we realize that words can destroy something good, wonderful, and dear, and that by keeping silent we can avoid causing the least damage or harm, it’s easy to stay silent."
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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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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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