The Immortal Bartfuss Quotes

“Now he knew there was some minute flaw in the way he had given, and that was why it hadn't been accepted. He also remembered the man's look, the penetrating look of an old hawk. "Everything bad happens to me at the seaside." He summed up a tiresome lesson for himself. The sun got lower and lower, and its light was broken on the back of the sea. The thin dejection he had borne with him since morning congealed and became sorrow, sorrow for himself. He knew that sorrow and hated it.”
― Aharon Appelfeld, The Immortal Bartfuss

“Now he knew there was some minute flaw in the way he had given, and that was why it hadn't been accepted.”
― Aharon Appelfeld, The Immortal Bartfuss

“That was his way-- morbid precision, excess awareness, complicated pain.”
― Aharon Appelfeld, The Immortal Bartfuss