Although the noise of the chattering clientele is much more significant than the topics of their chatter, it does finally constitute that type of social and indistinct expression that we refer to as rhubarb. The very particular volume in which people tell each other their news seems to generate all by itself that acoustic chiaroscuro, a sounding murk, in which every communication seems to lose its edges, truth projects the shadow of a lie, and a statement seems to resemble its opposite.
A lot of truths about the living world are recorded in bad books; they are just badly written about. - Joseph Roth
A lot of truths about the living world are recorded in bad books; they are just badly written about.
- Joseph Roth
Although the noise of the chattering clientele is much more significant than the topics of their chatter, it does finally constitute that type of soc… - Joseph Roth
Although the noise of the chattering clientele is much more significant than the topics of their chatter, it does finally constitute that type of soc…
A moving shadow means more to us than a body at rest. We are no longer taken in by a fixed grin. We know that only death has a rictus. - Joseph Roth
A moving shadow means more to us than a body at rest. We are no longer taken in by a fixed grin. We know that only death has a rictus.
Only the small things in life are important - Joseph Roth
Only the small things in life are important
That was how things were back then. Anything that grew took its time growing, and anything that perished took a long time to be forgotten. But everyt… - Joseph Roth
That was how things were back then. Anything that grew took its time growing, and anything that perished took a long time to be forgotten. But everyt…
Anyway, I am unfitted to hold down a job anywhere unless they were to pay me for getting angry at the world." 96 - Joseph Roth
Anyway, I am unfitted to hold down a job anywhere unless they were to pay me for getting angry at the world." 96
I am not an encore, not a pudding, I am the main dish. - Joseph Roth
I am not an encore, not a pudding, I am the main dish.
The escalator seems to me to typify this: It leads us up, by climbing on our behalf. Yes, it doesn't even climb, it flies. Each step carries its shop… - Joseph Roth
The escalator seems to me to typify this: It leads us up, by climbing on our behalf. Yes, it doesn't even climb, it flies. Each step carries its shop…
I believe that my observations have always led me to find that the so-called realist moves about the world with a closed mind, ringed as it were with… - Joseph Roth
I believe that my observations have always led me to find that the so-called realist moves about the world with a closed mind, ringed as it were with…
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