Quotes from Robert Walser

I contemplated pride and love. All this contemplativeness. When will I be free of it?

What we understand and love understands and loves us also.

So you, too, like fruitcake? (RW on meeting Lenin in Zurich during World War I.)

At least we should learn to understand our fellow beings, for we are powerless to stop their misery, their ignominy, their suffering, their weakness, and their death.