A Schoolboy's Diary and Other Stories Quotes

“Something feels like it’s missing when I haven’t heard any music, and when I hear music, then I really feel like something is missing. That’s the best I can do in trying to describe music.”
― Robert Walser, A Schoolboy's Diary and Other Stories

“Everything dreamed because it was alive, and everything lived because it was permitted to dream.”
― Robert Walser, A Schoolboy's Diary and Other Stories

“At last I have drawn a firm line under the truly astounding great column of figures and am done with pursuing that for which I am not sufficiently intelligent.”
― Robert Walser, A Schoolboy's Diary and Other Stories