People are always talking about it being their duty to find their way to their fellow men — to their neighbour, as they are forever saying with all the baseness of false sentiment — when in fact it is...
The art historians are the real wreckers of art, Reger said. The art historians twaddle so long about art until they have killed it with their twaddle. Art is killed by the twaddle of the art historia...
You've always lived a life of pretense, not a real life-- a simulated existence, not a genuine existence. Everything about you, everything you are, has always been pretense, never genuine, never real.
Women were like rivers, their banks were unreachable, the night often rang with the cries of the drowned.
After my parents were dead, I found in a box and in two chests of drawers nothing but hundreds of bright red Alpine caps, I said, nothing but bright red Alpine stockings. Every one of them knitted by...
Almost everybody we get together with about a matter, even if it is of the highest importance, is incompetent.
The only friends I have are the dead who have bequeathed their writings to me--I have no others.
Those who live in the country get idiotic in time, without noticing it, for a while they think it's original and good for their health, but life in the country is not original at all, for anyone who w...
It would be wrong to refuse to face the fact that everything is fundamentally sick and sad.
Instead of committing suicide, people go to work.
