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"I could have laughed, if I wasn't near tears, myself, by that time, at the pitiful simplicity of the man, at his truly apalling greatness of heart, that he believed, in his misfortune, there was some higher authority which was infallible and must always know and love the truth when it saw it (...); nobility of spirit hand in hand with absense of analysis, that's what's always buggered up the working class."

walser is so real because i, too, would leave the world behind and join the circus out of love and devotion for a tall, beautiful woman with wings