Peter Stamm Quotes

#1. If it's reality you want, I suggest you look out the window.

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#2. That's the thing with reality, he said, you can't repeat it to order, you can't correct it. Perhaps we should read more books.

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#3. Beautiful landscapes are no use for good paintings.

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#4. When I really feel like dancing, I want someone who knows how to lead.

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#5. Dust was time in material form, Hubert could no longer remember who had said it, or where he had read it. At any rate, a lot of time seemed to have collected in his studio, because there was a thin, almost transparent layer of dust over everything.

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#6. The only driver for his work was desire, a kind of hunger for reality, for presence, and also for intimacy, as opposed to publicity. In a very wide sense, he was interested in transcendence.

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#7. A little wolf is present in every one of us.

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#8. Fear is the possibility of freedom.

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#9. You mustn't expect too much," I said. "Happiness consists of wanting what you get.

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#10. If you shared your happiness with journalists, you shouldn't be surprised if they were interested in your misfortune as well.

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#11. If I had wanted only to make lots of money, I would have chosen a different profession.

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