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On any page of Stifter that you care to pick there is so much kitsch that several generations of poetry-hungry nuns and nurses can be satiated with it,
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“Merry Christmas! the man threatened.”
― The Recognitions
― The Recognitions
“it is discouraging to leave the past behind only to see it coming toward you like the thunderstorm which drenched you yesterday.”
― The Tunnel
― The Tunnel
“Often, the outward and visible material signs and symbols of happiness and success only show themselves when the process of decline has already set in. The outer manifestations take time - like the light of that star up there, which may in reality be already quenched, when it looks to us to be shining its brightest.”
― Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family
― Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family
“Civilised life, you know, is based on a huge number of illusions in which we all collaborate willingly. The trouble is we forget after a while that they are illusions and we are deeply shocked when reality is torn down around us.”
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“The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful.”
― The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
― The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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