Your very eyes. How they have always been for me the command to obey, the inviolable and beautiful commandment. No, no, I'm not telling lies. Your appearance in the doorway!
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You have been my body's health. Whenever I have read a book, it was you I was reading, not the book, you were the book. You were, you were.
Tags: book eyes you commandment doorway
I wanted to speak with someone, but found no time; sought some fixed point, but found none. In the midst of the unrelenting forward thrust I felt the wish to stand still. The muchness and the motion were too much and too fast. Everyone withdrew from everyone. There was a running, as of something liquefied, a constant going forth, as of evaporation. Everything was schematic, ghostlike, even myself.
Robert WalserThe lively is always more contemplative than what is dead and sad.
Robert WalserA park like this resembles a large, silent, isolated room. In fact it's always Sunday in a park, by the way, for it's always a bit melancholy, and the melancholy stirs up vivid memories of home, and Sunday is something that only ever existed at home, where you were a child.
Robert WalserÀs pessoas saudáveis faço o seguinte apelo: não teimem em ler apenas esses livros saudáveis, travem um conhecimento mais estreito, também, com a literatura dita doentia, que vos transmitirá, decerto, uma cultura edificante. As pessoas saudáveis deveriam sempre expor-se um pouco ao perigo. Senão, com mil raios, para que serve ser saudável? Simplesmente para, num determinado dia, morrer de boa saúde?
Robert WalserGod goes with thoughtless people.
Robert WalserOur car is constantly in motion. It is raining in the streets we glide through, and this constitutes one more added pleasantness. Some people find it frightfully agreeable to see that it is raining and at the same time be permitted to sense that they themselves are not getting wet. The image produced by a gray, wet street has something consoling and dreamy about it, and so you stand now upon the rear platform of the creaking car that is rumbling its way forward, and you gaze straight ahead. Gazing straight ahead is something done by almost all the people who sit or stand in the "electric.
Robert WalserTags: cities-spaces-places
Estimado señor, le ruego que deje de creer en mí.
Robert Walser¿Acaso no es tremendamente cómodo creer en alguien? Uno se puede dejar arrastrar por la fe sin el menor esfuerzo. Uno puede ser la deshonra en persona y creer firme y piadosamente en cualquier hombre bueno y valeroso. Uno puede comer chocolate y seguir creyendo sin el menor apuro en una gran persona que acaso no tiene qué llevarse a la boca. Y es que creer no cuesta nada. Creyendo y haciendo profesión de fe se perjudica por lo menos tanto como se ayuda. (...) Quien cree realmente hasta el punto de tener que luchar consigo mismo deja de hablar de ello, no dice una sola palabra al respecto, sino que se limita a creer, a sufrir y a creer.
Robert WalserSo you, too, like fruitcake? (RW on meeting Lenin in Zurich during World War I.)
Robert WalserTags: food communism great-war leninism
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