Quoted in "The Order of the Death's Head: The Story of Hitler's S.S." - Page 439 - by Heinz Höhne, R. Barry - 1969
Variant: There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
“I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.”
The Guardian (London, 11 August 1988)
“… like us? Counting up the minutes -- have we spent half an hour together?”
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover
The Last Messiah (1933)
Source: trans. Peter Reed & David Rothenberg https://ia803202.us.archive.org/15/items/20200821_20200821_1659/OAP_Zapffe_Last_Messiah.pdf, page 8
Source: How To Write A Sentence And How To Read One (2011), Chapter 3, It's Not The Thought That Counts, p. 26
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Variant: All art is immoral.
“I once saw a film where the main character didn't speak for the first half hour.”
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover
