"How can one not succumb and allow one's courage to fail when everything is shut tight, when all meaningful things are walled up, and when you constantly knock against bricks, as against the walls of a prison?"

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Source : Bruno Schulz, Jonathan Safran Foer, David Goldfarb (2008). “The street of crocodiles and other stories”, Penguin Classics

Bruno Schulz

#Meaningful Quotes #Wall Quotes #Bricks Quotes

“Order is the law of all intelligible existence.”
“Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.”
“I would rather have a cup of tea than sex.”

Source : "Are you sure? The 12 things that celebrities have claimed are 'better than sex'" by Rod McPhee, www.mirror.co.uk. October 26, 2013.
“Gentlemen, welcome to the world of reality â€“ there is no audience. No one to applaud, to admire. No one to see you. Do you understand? Here is the truth â€“ actual heroism receives no ovation, entertains no one. No one queues up to see it. No one is interested.”

Source : "The Pale King by David Foster Wallace - review" by Michael Sayeau, www.theguardian.com. April 24, 2011.
“I've attained my mass basically by training hard and very, very heavy.”
“A government is like fire, a handy servant, but a dangerous master.”
“I would love to make a bunch of country demos and write country songs for really great country singers.”
“I'd like to make music for a long time, and all different types of music. Maybe I'll start my own label to get other artists off the ground.”

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