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Robert Walser
Geburtstag: 15. April 1878
Todesdatum: 25. Dezember 1956
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Robert Walser war ein deutschschweizerischer Schriftsteller.
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„Rasche Abschiede sind unliebevoll, und lange sind unerträglich.“
— Robert Walser
Jakob von Gunten, Ein Tagebuch. Zürich, Frankfurt am Main, 13. Aufl. 2004 (Sämtliche Werke in Einzelausgaben. Hg.: Jochen Greven, 11; Suhrkamp Taschenbuch, 1111), S. 133.
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„Ich bin allerdings arm und an Erfolglosigkeit hat es mir bis heute nie gefehlt, aber das Leben kann auch ohne Erfolg hübsch sein.“
— Robert Walser
Der Spaziergang, Zürich, Frankfurt am Main, 1. Auflage 1985 (Sämtliche Werke in Einzelausgaben. Hg.: Jochen Greven; Suhrkamp Taschenbuch, 1105), S. 117.
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„One is always half mad when one is shy of people.“
— Robert Walser, Jakob von Gunten
„How reprehensible it is when those blessed with commodities insist on ignoring the poor. Better to torment them, force them into indentured servitude, inflict compulsion and blows—this at least produces a connection, fury and a pounding heart, and these too constitute a form of relationship. But to cower in elegant homes behind golden garden gates, fearful lest the breath of warm humankind touch you, unable to indulge in extravagances for fear they might be glimpsed by the embittered oppressed, to oppress and yet lack the courage to show yourself as an oppressor, even to fear the ones you are oppressing, feeling ill at ease in your own wealth and begrudging others their ease, to resort to disagreeable weapons that require neither true audacity nor manly courage, to have money, but only money, without splendor: That’s what things look like in our cities at present“
— Robert Walser, The Tanners
„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
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„How uninteresting interesting things can become.“
— Robert Walser, Masquerade and Other Stories
