Bruno Schulz Quotes

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Image, Animals! the object of insatiable interest, examples of the riddle of life,

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Animals! the object of insatiable interest, examples of the riddle of life, created, as it were, to reveal the human being to man himself, displaying his richness and complexity in a thousand kaleidoscopic possibilities, each of them brought to some curious end, to some characteristic exuberance.

—Bruno Schulz

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Reality is as thin as paper and betrays with all its cracks its imitative character.

—Bruno Schulz

Image, Even in the depths of sleep, in which he had to satisfy

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Even in the depths of sleep, in which he had to satisfy his need for protection and love by curling himself up into a trembling ball, he could not rid himself of the feeling of loneliness and homelessness.

—Bruno Schulz

Image, Under the imaginary table that separates me from my readers, don’t

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Under the imaginary table that separates me from my readers, don’t we secretly clasp each other’s hands?

—Bruno Schulz

Image, Man was entering under false pretenses the sphere of incredible facilities, acquired

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Man was entering under false pretenses the sphere of incredible facilities, acquired too cheaply, below cost price, almost for nothing, and the disproportion between outlay and gain, the obvious fraud on nature, the excessive payment for a trick of genius, had to be offset by self-parody.

—Bruno Schulz

Image, Ordinary facts are arranged within time, strung along its length as on

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Ordinary facts are arranged within time, strung along its length as on a thread. There they have their antecedents and their consequences, which crowd tightly together and press hard one upon the other without any pause. This has its importance for any narrative, of which continuity and successiveness are the soul.

—Bruno Schulz

Image, And one’s wandering proved as sterile and pointless as the excitement produced

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And one's wandering proved as sterile and pointless as the excitement produced by a close study of pornographic albums.

—Bruno Schulz

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One thing must be avoided at all costs: narrow-mindedness, pedantry, dull pettiness.

—Bruno Schulz

Image, There are things than cannot ever occur with any precision. They are

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There are things than cannot ever occur with any precision. They are too big and too magnificent to be contained in mere facts. They are merely trying to occur, they are checking whether the ground of reality can carry them. And they quickly withdraw, fearing to loose their integrity in the frailty of realization.

—Bruno Schulz

Image, Could it be that time is too narrow for all events? Could

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Could it be that time is too narrow for all events? Could it happen that all the seats within time might have been sold? Worried, we run along the train of events, preparing ourselves for the journey.

—Bruno Schulz

Image, Now the windows, blinded by the glare of the empty square, had

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Now the windows, blinded by the glare of the empty square, had fallen asleep. The balconies declared their emptiness to heaven; the open doorways smelt of coolness and wine.

—Bruno Schulz

Image, The days hardened with cold and boredom like last year’s loaves of

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The days hardened with cold and boredom like last year's loaves of bread. One began to cut them with blunt knives without appetite, with a lazy indifference.

—Bruno Schulz

Image, ….”the sound of a barrel organ rising from the deepest golden vein

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...."the sound of a barrel organ rising from the deepest golden vein of the day; two or three bars of a chorus, played on a distant piano over and over again, melting in the sun on the white pavement, lost in the fire of high noon.

—Bruno Schulz

Image, An event may be small and insignificant in its origin , and yet,

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An event may be small and insignificant in its origin , and yet, when drawn close to one’s eye, it may open in its center an infinite and radiant perspective because a higher order of being is trying to express itself in it and irradiates it violently.

—Bruno Schulz

Image, Yet what is to be done with events that have no place

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Yet what is to be done with events that have no place of their own in time; events that have occurred too late, after the whole of time has been distributed, divided, and allotted; events that have been left in the cold, unregistered, hanging in the air, homeless, and errant?

—Bruno Schulz

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My ideal goal is to "mature" into childhood. That would be genuine maturity.

—Bruno Schulz

Image, As we manipulate everyday words, we forget that they are fragments of

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As we manipulate everyday words, we forget that they are fragments of ancient and eternal stories, that we are building our houses with broken pieces of sculptures and ruined statues of gods as the barbarians did.