There is a fear of voluptuousness that is itself voluptuous, just as a certain fear of death can itself be deadly.
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.
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
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…
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…
There is a fear of voluptuousness that is itself voluptuous, just as a certain fear of death can itself be deadly. - Joseph Roth
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