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  1. Sten Nadolny _ The Discovery Of Slowness

    When somebody says something that's correct, he has no need to look good.
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  2. Sten Nadolny _ The Discovery Of Slowness

    Scrutinise three times; act once. Young people don't always grasp this. Being slow and faultless is better than being quick and final.
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  3. Sten Nadolny _ The Discovery Of Slowness

    Only those could maintain certainty who were themselves of great permanence – like the stars, the mountains and the sea. And they in turn possessed no words with which to tell what they had come to know from their long existence.
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  4. Sten Nadolny _ The Discovery Of Slowness

    Only those could maintain certainty who were themselves of great permanence – like the stars, the mountains and the sea.
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  5. Sten Nadolny _ The Discovery Of Slowness

    Listening to Aunt Eliza, one could learn that when people talk too fast the content becomes as superfluous as the speed.
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  6. Sten Nadolny _ The Discovery Of Slowness

    Nothing can be predicted. Nobody can give a reason why something happened in this way and not in another. Stronger than all predictions are coincidence and contradiction.' John
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  7. Sten Nadolny _ The Discovery Of Slowness

    That's because the most competent among them will always try to change that small part of the world which they know. One of these days they'll discover the world instead of improving it, and not forget what they already discovered.
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  8. Sten Nadolny _ The Discovery Of Slowness

    This gigantic figure grew effortlessly in his dream, emerging from the deceptively eternal expanse of the horizon; it was like a truth that would make everything different. A crater opened up towards heaven, a mouth or a gorge. Perhaps the whole thing was a leviathan, perhaps a dance of millions of tiny creatures.
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  9. Sten Nadolny _ The Discovery Of Slowness

    There are two kinds: an eye for details, which discovers new things, and a fixed look that follows only a ready-made plan and speeds it up for the moment.
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  10. Sten Nadolny _ The Discovery Of Slowness

    All at once John was strong enough to bear the impatience of others, and with that the game was at an end. He moved at his own pace. He gave orders the way a carpenter drives nails, each straight and deep until it held. He paused where he wanted to, and not where others interrupted him.
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