Daniil Kharms quotes
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“I was most happy when pen and paper were taken from me and I was forbidden from doing anything. I had no anxiety about doing nothing by my own fault, my conscience was clear, and I was happy. This was when I was in prison.”
-- Daniil KharmsSource : Daniil Kharms (2007). “Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writing of Daniil Kharms”, Overlook Press
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“There lived a redheaded man who had no eyes or ears. He didn’t have hair either, so he was called a redhead arbitrarily. He couldn’t talk because he had no mouth. He had no nose either. He didn’t even have arms or legs. He had no stomach, he had no back, he had no spine, and he had no innards at all. He didn’t have anything. So we don’t even know who we’re talking about. It’s better that we don’t talk about him any more.”
-- Daniil KharmsSource : Daniil Kharms (2007). “Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writing of Daniil Kharms”, Overlook Press
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“One must write poetry in such as way that if one threw the poem in a window, the pane would break.”
-- Daniil KharmsSource : Daniil Kharms, Aleksandr Ivanovich Vvedenskiĭ, George Gibian (1987). “The Man with the black coat: Russia's literature of the absurd : selected works of Daniil Kharms and Alexander Vvedensky”, Northwestern Univ Pr
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“Open this notebook every day and write down half a page at the very least. If you have nothing to write down, then at least, following Gogol’s advice, write down that today there’s nothing to write. Always write with attention and look on writing as a holiday.”
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“Is there anything on earth which would have meaning and would even change the course of events not only on earth, but in other worlds?†I asked my teacher. “There is,†my teacher answered me. “Well, what is it?†I asked. “It’s...†began my teacher and suddenly fell silent. I stood and waited intently for his answer. But he was silent. And I stood and was silent. And he was silent. And I stood, silent. And he was silent. We’re both standing and silent. Ho-la-la! We’re both standing and silent. Ho-le-le! Yes, yes, we’re both standing and silent! 16-17 July 1937”
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“I am interested only in "nonsense"; only in that which makes no practical sense. I am interested in life only in its absurd manifestations.”
-- Daniil KharmsSource : Daniil Kharms, Neil Cornwell (1993). “Incidences”, Serpents Tail
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“Eleven times Jesus died on the cross, Eleven times falls down a body thrown upward, Eleven times also I abandon the logical flow of thought.”
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“Open this notebook every day and write down half a page at the very least. If you have nothing to write down, then at least, following Gogol’s advice, write down that today there’s nothing to write. Always write with attention and look on writing as a holiday.”
-- Daniil KharmsSource : Daniil Kharms (2007). “Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writing of Daniil Kharms”, Overlook Press
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Source : "Alain de Botton's Healing Arts" by Joshua Rothman, www.newyorker.com. November 19, 2013.
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“Anxiety is the fear that one of a pair of opposites might cancel the other. Forever.”
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