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Jakob von Gunten

Jakob von Gunten
Robert Walser

Jakob von Gunten. Ein Tagebuch is a novel by Swiss writer Robert Walser, first published in German in 1909.

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“That is all very senseless, but this senselessness has a pretty mouth, and it smiles.”

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“One is always half mad when one is shy of people.”

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“With all my ideas and follies I could one day found a corporate company for the propagation of beautiful but unreliable imaginings.”

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