"That lovely things exist is a lovely thought."

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Source : Robert Walser (1990). “Masquerade and other stories”, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr

Robert Walser

“I'm actually not a cannabis user frequently.”
“The brutal soldiers satisfied their sensual appetites without consulting either the inclination or the duties of their female captives; and a nice question of casuistry was seriously agitated, Whether those tender victims, who had inflexibly refused their consent to the violation which they sustained, had lost, by their misfortune, the glorious crown of virginity. There were other losses indeed of a more substantial kind and more general concern.”
“When I played, I never needed the spotlight, nor did I want it. I simply wanted to play baseball and be respected by my teammates and the opposing players.”
“There's a general consensus of opinion that people in love are apt to look silly -- except to each other.”
“A politician should not be written off till he or she is cremated.”
“The five senses are the ministers of the soul.”
“Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion--a form of knowledge without the power of it.”
“To the ego, loving and wanting are the same, whereas true love has no wanting in it, no desire to possess or for your partner to change.”

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