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Robert Walser Quotes

That lovely things exist is a lovely thought.

Robert Walser (1990). “Masquerade and other stories”, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr

How uninteresting interesting things can become.

Robert Walser (1990). “Masquerade and other stories”, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr

That is all very senseless, but this senselessness has a pretty mouth, and it smiles.

Robert Walser (2014). “Jakob von Gunten”, p.12, New York Review of Books

One is always half mad when one is shy of people.

Robert Walser (2014). “Jakob von Gunten”, p.15, New York Review of Books

Oh, whoever has been himself alone can never find another’s loneliness strange.

Robert Walser (2012). “Berlin Stories”, p.119, New York Review of Books