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> [If we lose our memory, we lose ourselves. Forgetting is one of the symptoms of death. Without memory we cease to be human beings.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ivan-klima/if-we-lose-our-memory-we-lose-ourselves-forgetting-is-one-of-the/)

[Ivan Klíma](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ivan-klima/)

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## More by Ivan Klima

> [“..the writer’s obsession – the desire to know and communicate, or, rather, to know everything so as to communicate with the greatest degree of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ivan-klima/the-writer-s-obsession-the-desire-to-know-and-communicate-or-rather/)

[Ivan Klima](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ivan-klima/)

> [“Anyone longing to become a writer, for even a few moments of his life, will vainly weave fantastic events unless he has experienced that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ivan-klima/anyone-longing-to-become-a-writer-for-even-a-few-moments-of-his-life/)

[Ivan Klima](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ivan-klima/)

> [“My father also told me that people had always suffered from being tied to the ground, from not being able to detach themselves from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ivan-klima/my-father-also-told-me-that-people-had-always-suffered-from-being/)

[Ivan Klíma](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ivan-klima/)

> [Fear is the touch of death, death reminding us of its existence.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ivan-klima/fear-is-the-touch-of-death-death-reminding-us-of-its-existence/)

[Ivan Klíma](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ivan-klima/)

> [“Man is reluctant to accept that his life has come to a conclusion in that most important respect, that his hopes have been fulfilled.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ivan-klima/man-is-reluctant-to-accept-that-his-life-has-come-to-a-conclusion-in/)

[Ivan Klíma](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ivan-klima/)

> [The world is like an enormous set of scales. When evil begins to outweigh good, angels cram themselves in on the lighter side. You…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ivan-klima/the-world-is-like-an-enormous-set-of-scales-when-evil-begins-to/)

[Ivan Klíma](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ivan-klima/)

> [A picture was a motionless record of motion. An arrested representation of life. A picture was the kiss of death pretending to possess immutability.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ivan-klima/a-picture-was-a-motionless-record-of-motion-an-arrested/)

[Ivan Klíma](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ivan-klima/)

> [“The halcyon days of childhood, a time when everything lay open before him, when the most minor episodes could be construed as events and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ivan-klima/the-halcyon-days-of-childhood-a-time-when-everything-lay-open-before/)

[Ivan Klima](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ivan-klima/)

> [Justice was revenge wrapping itself in a cloak of high principle.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ivan-klima/justice-was-revenge-wrapping-itself-in-a-cloak-of-high-principle/)

[Ivan Klíma](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ivan-klima/)

> [...there is little that comes so close to death as fulfilled love.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ivan-klima/there-is-little-that-comes-so-close-to-death-as-fulfilled-love/)

[Ivan Klíma](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ivan-klima/)

> [If we lose our memory, we lose ourselves. Forgetting is one of the symptoms of death. Without memory we cease to be human beings.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ivan-klima/if-we-lose-our-memory-we-lose-ourselves-forgetting-is-one-of-the/)

[Ivan Klíma](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ivan-klima/)

> [“The Apocalypse can take different forms. The least dramatic, at first sight, is the one in which man perishes under an avalanche of useless…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ivan-klima/the-apocalypse-can-take-different-forms-the-least-dramatic-at-first/)

[Ivan Klíma](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ivan-klima/)

> [“It needs a lot of courage to admit to an action that one is ashamed of and knows to be wrong. One's reluctance to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ivan-klima/it-needs-a-lot-of-courage-to-admit-to-an-action-that-one-is-ashamed/)

[Ivan Klíma](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ivan-klima/)

> [“Growing numbers of people, in their work, come into contact with a diminishing fragment of reality; as their world shrinks, so does their language.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ivan-klima/growing-numbers-of-people-in-their-work-come-into-contact-with-a/)

[Ivan Klíma](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ivan-klima/)

> [I realised the amazing power of literature and of the human imagination generally: to make the dead live and to stop the living from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ivan-klima/i-realised-the-amazing-power-of-literature-and-of-the-human/)

[Ivan Klíma](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ivan-klima/)

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