I'd like to die listening to a piece of music. I imagine this as so easy, so natural, but naturally it's quite impossible. Notes stab too softly. The wounds they leave behind may smart, but they don't fester. Melancholy and pain trickle out instead of blood. When the notes cease, all is peaceful within me again.
To the question: How do the authors of sketches, stories and novels get along in life, the following answer can or must be given: They are stragglers… - Robert Walser
To the question: How do the authors of sketches, stories and novels get along in life, the following answer can or must be given: They are stragglers…
- Robert Walser
Today I told myself that in actual fact anyone who takes an innocuous and random delight in his life is an absolute lummox. - Robert Walser
Today I told myself that in actual fact anyone who takes an innocuous and random delight in his life is an absolute lummox.
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,… - 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,…
I am not here [in the sanitarium] to write, but to be mad. - Robert Walser
I am not here [in the sanitarium] to write, but to be mad.
At least we should learn to understand our fellow beings, for we are powerless to stop their misery, their ignominy, their suffering, their weakness,… - Robert Walser
At least we should learn to understand our fellow beings, for we are powerless to stop their misery, their ignominy, their suffering, their weakness,…
Every sensitive person carries in himself old cities enclosed by ancient walls - Robert Walser
Every sensitive person carries in himself old cities enclosed by ancient walls
How uninteresting interesting things can become. - Robert Walser
How uninteresting interesting things can become.
I don't want a future, I want a present. To me this appears of greater value. You have a future only when you have no present, and when you have a pr… - Robert Walser
I don't want a future, I want a present. To me this appears of greater value. You have a future only when you have no present, and when you have a pr…
That lovely things exist is a lovely thought. - Robert Walser
That lovely things exist is a lovely thought.
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