Bruno Schulz Quotes

One thing must be avoided at all costs: narrow-mindedness, pedantry, dull pettiness.

Reality is as thin as paper and betrays with all its cracks its imitative character.

Lifelessness is only a disguise behind which hide unknown forms of life.

My ideal goal is to "mature" into childhood. That would be genuine maturity.

Now the windows, blinded by the glare of the empty square, had fallen asleep. The balconies declared their emptiness to heaven; the open doorways smelt of coolness and wine.

Under the imaginary table that separates me from my readers, don’t we secretly clasp each other’s hands?

And one's wandering proved as sterile and pointless as the excitement produced by a close study of pornographic albums.

The days hardened with cold and boredom like last year's loaves of bread. One began to cut them with blunt knives without appetite, with a lazy indifference.

Reality is as thin as paper, and betrays with all its cracks its imitative character.

They were villages forgotten in the depth of time, peopled by creatures chained forever to their tiny destinies.