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> [“By now the window of the bar is visible, glowing ahead of them, but there is no sound, not a single word to be heard, as if the place were deserted, not a soul … but now, someone is playing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/l-szl-krasznahorkai/by-now-the-window-of-the-bar-is-visible-glowing-ahead-of-them-but/)

[László Krasznahorkai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/l-szl-krasznahorkai/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/086/l-szl-krasznahorkai-16730_earth-and-sky_by-now-the-window-of-the-bar-is-visible_1634105.jpg)

> [“Irimiás scrapes the mud off his lead-heavy shoes, clears his throat, cautiously opens the door, and the rain begins again, while to the east, swift as memory, the sky brightens, scarlet and pale blue and leans against the undulating horizon,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/l-szl-krasznahorkai/irimi-s-scrapes-the-mud-off-his-lead-heavy-shoes-clears-his-throat/)

[László Krasznahorkai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/l-szl-krasznahorkai/)

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## More by László Krasznahorkai

> [“The light gave him hope but he was afraid of it too.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/l-szl-krasznahorkai/the-light-gave-him-hope-but-he-was-afraid-of-it-too/)

[László Krasznahorkai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/l-szl-krasznahorkai/)

> [“...megértette, hogy mindaz, amit mi a létből érzékelünk, nem más, mint a hiábavalóság felfoghatatlan terjedelmű emlékműve, mely az idők végezetéig ismétli önmagát, és hogy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/l-szl-krasznahorkai/meg-rtette-hogy-mindaz-amit-mi-a-l-tb-l-rz-kel-nk-nem-m-s-mint-a-hi/)

[László Krasznahorkai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/l-szl-krasznahorkai/)

> [“Culture, then, only truly becomes culture when it is embodied in someone.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/l-szl-krasznahorkai/culture-then-only-truly-becomes-culture-when-it-is-embodied-in-someone/)

[László Krasznahorkai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/l-szl-krasznahorkai/)

> [“..but if it does occur, then anyone can comprehend that above us and below us, outside of ourselves and deep within ourselves, there is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/l-szl-krasznahorkai/but-if-it-does-occur-then-anyone-can-comprehend-that-above-us-and/)

[László Krasznahorkai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/l-szl-krasznahorkai/)

> [“It was a long struggle against invisible foes, or to put it more accurately, against invisible foes that might not have been there at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/l-szl-krasznahorkai/it-was-a-long-struggle-against-invisible-foes-or-to-put-it-more/)

[László Krasznahorkai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/l-szl-krasznahorkai/)

> [“I would leave everything here: the valleys, the hills, the paths, and the jaybirds from the gardens, I would leave here the petcocks and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/l-szl-krasznahorkai/i-would-leave-everything-here-the-valleys-the-hills-the-paths-and-the/)

[László Krasznahorkai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/l-szl-krasznahorkai/)

> [“It passes, but it does not pass away.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/l-szl-krasznahorkai/it-passes-but-it-does-not-pass-away/)

[Laszlo Krasznahorkai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/l-szl-krasznahorkai/)

> [“Cele doua ceasuri arata, concomitent, doua forme diferite de timp, desi pe ambele destul de inexact. Al nostru intarzie peste masura, iar cel de…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/l-szl-krasznahorkai/cele-doua-ceasuri-arata-concomitent-doua-forme-diferite-de-timp-desi/)

[László Krasznahorkai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/l-szl-krasznahorkai/)

> [“Get it into your thick head that jokes are just like life. Things that begin badly, end badly. Everything's fine in the middle, it's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/l-szl-krasznahorkai/get-it-into-your-thick-head-that-jokes-are-just-like-life-things-that/)

[László Krasznahorkai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/l-szl-krasznahorkai/)

> [“What is behind me still remains ahead of me.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/l-szl-krasznahorkai/what-is-behind-me-still-remains-ahead-of-me/)

[László Krasznahorkai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/l-szl-krasznahorkai/)

> [“However apparently insignificant the event, whether it be the ring of tobacco ash surrounding the table, the direction from which the wild geese first…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/l-szl-krasznahorkai/however-apparently-insignificant-the-event-whether-it-be-the-ring-of/)

[László Krasznahorkai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/l-szl-krasznahorkai/)

> [“Imaginile i se perindau in tacere, iar si iar, prin fata ochilor, intr-o succesiune tot mai rigida, parca tot ce considera omul ca-i important…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/l-szl-krasznahorkai/imaginile-i-se-perindau-in-tacere-iar-si-iar-prin-fata-ochilor-intr-o/)

[László Krasznahorkai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/l-szl-krasznahorkai/)

> [“The entire end-of-October night was beating with a single pulse, its own strange rhythm sounding through trees and rain and mud in a manner…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/l-szl-krasznahorkai/the-entire-end-of-october-night-was-beating-with-a-single-pulse-its/)

[László Krasznahorkai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/l-szl-krasznahorkai/)

> [“By now the window of the bar is visible, glowing ahead of them, but there is no sound, not a single word to be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/l-szl-krasznahorkai/by-now-the-window-of-the-bar-is-visible-glowing-ahead-of-them-but/)

[László Krasznahorkai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/l-szl-krasznahorkai/)

> [“it’s precisely the infinite that casts light upon how the brain thinks, and how clever it is in showing us something that seems real…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/l-szl-krasznahorkai/it-s-precisely-the-infinite-that-casts-light-upon-how-the-brain/)

[László Krasznahorkai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/l-szl-krasznahorkai/)

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