Ismail Kadaré Quotes

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• A mountaineer’s house, before being his home and the home of his family, is the home of God and of guests.
• An Albanian’s house is the dwelling of God and the guest.’ Of God and the guest, you see. So before it is the house of…
• In our city spring came from the sky, not from the soil, which was ruled by stone that recognizes no seasonal change. The change of…
• And everything would be different, different.
• It was only a phrase that went from mouth to mouth and was never quite swallowed.
• To tell the truth, this was one of the few cases in which she had not told him just what she was thinking. Usually, she…
• His suspicion that he was not going in the right direction tortmented him more and more. At last he had the conviction that he would…
• Can one move an empire as if it were a house?
• I could not understand how people could not like something as beautiful as the aerodrome. But I had lately become convinced that in general people…
• Not a single thought managed to take shape in her mind: for the likeness of this day to the last seemed to her the clearest…
• The days were heavy and sticky. All identical, one the same as the other. Soon they would even get rid of their one remaining distinction,…
• Can a country's people be better than its planes?
• Shiny musical instruments wailed, their mouths open like lilies.
• Winter hurled more wind and rain at the city than it ever had before. Clouds dashed about in all directions emptying their thunder, hail and…
• If an animal has to be sacrificed when a new bridge is built, what will it take to build a whole new world?
• Who in the world has not yearned for a loved one, has never said, If only he or she could come back just once, just…
• Dictatorship and authentic literature are incompatible... The writer is the natural enemy of dictatorship.

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