"That is all very senseless, but this senselessness has a pretty mouth, and it smiles."
- Robert Walser
"God goes with thoughtless people."
"cuando se es joven hay que ser un cero a la izquierda, pues no existe nada más perjudicial que destacar pronto, prematuramente, en cualquier cosa."
"Se aburren quienes se pasan la vida esperando que algo los estimule desde fuera..."
"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..."
"One listens to the murmur of the soul only because of boredom."
"Artists, as a rule, understand nothing about business, or, for some reason or other, they aren’t allowed to understand anything about it."
"With the utmost love and attention the man who walks must study and observe every smallest living thing, be it a child, a dog, a fly, a butterfly, a sparrow, a worm, a flower, a man, a house, a tree, ..."
"How reprehensible it is when those blessed with commodities insist on ignoring the poor. Better to torment them, force them into indentured servitude, inflict compulsion and blows—this at least produc..."
"I feel how little it concerns me, everything that’s called "the world," and how grand and exciting what I privately call the world is to me."