Hermann Broch Quotes

What's important is promising something to the people, not actually keeping those promises. The people have always lived on hope alone.

Hermann Broch

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Hermann Broch

Hermann Broch (German: [bʁɔx]; 1 November 1886 – 30 May 1951) was an Austrian writer, best known for two major works of modernist fiction: The Sleepwalkers (Die Schlafwandler, 1930–32) and The Death of Virgil (Der Tod des Vergil, 1945).

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Hermann Broch

I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.

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Hermann Broch

What's important is promising something to the people, not actually keeping those promises. The people have always lived on hope alone.

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Hermann Broch

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

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Hermann Broch

One who hates is a man holding a magnifying-glass, and when he hates someone, he knows precisely that person's surface, from the soles of his feet all the way up to each hair on the hated head.

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Were one merely to seek information, one should inquire of the man who hates, but if one wishes to know what truly is, one better ask the one who loves.

information wishes man

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