Frasi di Robert Walser

„Il sonno è più religioso di tutta la sua religione.“

—  Robert Walser, libro Jakob von Gunten

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Jakob von Gunten

„L'indossare calzoni presentava il vantaggio che le donne ponevano spirito e lingua nel proprio passo, il quale, nascosto sotto la gonna, si sente meno osservato e giudicato.“

—  Robert Walser

da Storie, Adelphi, 2008

„Un Jakob von Gunten può essere consolato? Finché sarò in salute, non se ne parla neppure.     Se“

—  Robert Walser, libro Jakob von Gunten

Jakob von Gunten

„Ecco che cosa volevo dire: non poter fare una cosa è come farla doppiamente in un qualche altro modo. Non c'è nulla di più insipido di un facile, sbrigativo consenso dato a fior di labbra.“

—  Robert Walser, libro Jakob von Gunten

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Jakob von Gunten

„With all my ideas and follies I could one day found a corporate company for the propagation of beautiful but unreliable imaginings.“

—  Robert Walser, libro Jakob von Gunten

Origine: Jakob von Gunten

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

—  Robert Walser, libro Jakob von Gunten

Origine: Jakob von Gunten

„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 present, you forget to even think about the future.“

—  Robert Walser, The Tanners

Origine: The Tanners

„Every sensitive person carries in himself old cities enclosed by ancient walls“

—  Robert Walser

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

—  Robert Walser, libro Jakob von Gunten

Origine: Jakob von Gunten

„How small life is here
and how big nothingness.
The sky, tired of light,
has given everything to the snow.

The two trees bow
their heads to each other.
Clouds cross the world’s
silence in a circle dance“

—  Robert Walser, Oppressive Light: Selected Poems by Robert Walser

Origine: Oppressive Light: Selected Poems by 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, it’s easy to stay silent.“

—  Robert Walser, Masquerade and Other Stories

Origine: Masquerade and Other Stories

„I am not here [in the sanitarium] to write, but to be mad.“

—  Robert Walser