"...."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."

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Source : Bruno Schulz (1963). “Cinnamon Shops: And Other Stories”

Bruno Schulz

#Piano Quotes #White Quotes #Fire Quotes

“Even when we get what we addictively want, our wanting to keep things that way automatically creates a new addiction.”
“something in me had got broken, but not so broken I didn't remember what it was.”
“I am still looking for the modern equivalent of those Quakers who ran successful businesses and made money because they offered honest products and treated their people decently . . . This business creed, sadly, seems long forgotten.”
“Sometimes you have to be lucky, but I always say that to be lucky, you have to fight for it.”
“That's the reason I believe in the power of prayer, because I believe you have to be able to first believe in a being superior to you, You have to believe in God and once you're able to believe in God and embrace the greatness of the creator, then you're able to believe in yourself and embrace the greatness that God put into you and each of us, and you're able to tap into that. But there will be days.”
“I often say that if you want to really want to understand the contract of marriage, just ask anyone who has been divorced. The marriage contract is one of property rights. Or maybe you can look in the Bible to see what Adam had to say about divorce, since Eve was his second wife.”
“At Calvary, God accepted his own unbreakable terms of justice.”
“The judges are a big problem. Law is equal for everyone, except for them.”

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