Quotes from Leo Perutz
For it's human nature even in the direst extremity to see a spark of hope and blow it into flames.
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What do any of us really know about others? Each of us has his own Day of Judgement inside himself.
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Does not every eternal masterpiece derive from the experience of disgrace, humiliation, wounded pride? The thoughtless mob may wildly applaud a work of art - to me it reveals the devastated mind of its creator. In all the great symphonies of tones, colours and ideas I see a gleam of the marvellous colour trumpet red, a faint reflection of the vision that for a short while raised the Master above the bewildering maze of his tormenting guilt.
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Look, doctor, China, the country without religion. The Chinese have no religious ideas, only a kind of philosophy. In the Middle Kingdom no grain has been cultivated for thousands of years. Only rice.
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Quando la morte va al mercato compra di tutto. Niente per lei è troppo piccolo, troppo poco.
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But, when you've swallowed what's stuck in your throat, tell me who's the first to notice the rain in this part of the world.
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His neighbours said that if Berl Landfahrer started dealing in candles the sun would stop setting, and that if it rained ducats he would be indoors, and if it rained stones he'd be out in the street.
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Busy thyself with the secrets of wisdom and knowledge, thus thou shalt overcome the fear of the morrow in thee.
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For my most gracious master still called me redhead, though my hair was already churchyard-coloured.
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And they say he's so rich that he spreads sugar on his honey.
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Da uno che non sa ridere non ci si può aspettare misericordia.
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Madame, lei ha una barricata che assalterei volentieri, se non fossi in là con gli anni e ormai disabituato al servizio militare». « Signore! » rispose la vedova senza distogliere lo sguardo dal suo lavoro d'intreccio. «La sua gentilezza mi fa onore»
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Signor di Josselin, io so che lei mi ama, e le consento di dirmelo».
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They say a deaf man heard a dumb man talking about a blind man who saw a cripple walking the tightrope." He
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Svaki pogled njenih o?iju, svaku re? iz njenih usta želim da imam samo za sebe. To što ne mogu da se odvojim od nje, to što ne mogu da ustanem i zauvek završim s time! To boli, to gori u meni!" "Ali demonima pakla je data sva mo?, nastupio je dan, poslednji dan, sudnji dan, sotona trijumfuje nad grešnom dušom, i jadikuju?i ljudski glas se ruši sa visine i tone u Judinom smehu o?ajanja.
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There wasn't a stick over which he didn't stumble, and if he had bread he wouldn't have a knife, and if he had both bread and a knife he wouldn't be able to find the salt. His
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Det var djävulen som hade befolkat jorden med kungar i syfte att pina vanligt folk.
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E crede che la vecchia Russia, la Russia che lei ama, potrà ritornare?». «Forse. Chi sa» disse il conte Gagarin, e la sua voce suonò a un tratto stanca e triste. «Tra fuoco e dolore va la Russia per la sua strada. Dove essa porti, non ci è dato sapere».
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Vittorin è lì in piedi, vuol vederla un'altra volta. Aspetta. Quattro minuti. Sei minuti. Adesso deve andare. Molte coppie sono passate davanti alla porta al ritmo della danza, facce sconosciute hanno guardato indifferenti dalla sua parte, forse c'era anche il viso di Franzi, lui non lo sa.
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