“..the writer’s obsession – the desire to know and communicate, or, rather, to know everything so as to communicate with the greatest… — Ivan Klima Communicate Copy Share Image
“Anyone longing to become a writer, for even a few moments of his life, will vainly weave fantastic events unless he has… — Ivan Klima Life Copy Share Image
“My father also told me that people had always suffered from being tied to the ground, from not being able to detach… — Ivan Klíma Live well Copy Share Image
“Man is reluctant to accept that his life has come to a conclusion in that most important respect, that his hopes have… — Ivan Klíma Close to death Copy Share Image
The world is like an enormous set of scales. When evil begins to outweigh good, angels cram themselves in on the lighter… — Ivan Klíma Angel Copy Share Image
A picture was a motionless record of motion. An arrested representation of life. A picture was the kiss of death pretending to… — Ivan Klíma Arrested Copy Share Image
“The halcyon days of childhood, a time when everything lay open before him, when the most minor episodes could be construed as… — Ivan Klima Childhood Copy Share Image
Justice was revenge wrapping itself in a cloak of high principle. — Ivan Klíma Cloaks Copy Share Image
...there is little that comes so close to death as fulfilled love. — Ivan Klíma Close to death Copy Share Image
If we lose our memory, we lose ourselves. Forgetting is one of the symptoms of death. Without memory we cease to be… — Ivan Klíma Being me Copy Share Image
“The Apocalypse can take different forms. The least dramatic, at first sight, is the one in which man perishes under an avalanche… — Ivan Klíma Apocalypse Copy Share Image
“It needs a lot of courage to admit to an action that one is ashamed of and knows to be wrong. One's… — Ivan Klíma Courage Copy Share Image
“Growing numbers of people, in their work, come into contact with a diminishing fragment of reality; as their world shrinks, so does… — Ivan Klíma Language Copy Share Image
I realised the amazing power of literature and of the human imagination generally: to make the dead live and to stop the… — Ivan Klíma Books Copy Share Image
If you tell anything to a woman ... it's like putting it in the papers. — Ivan Klíma Ifs Copy Share Image
Animals have one thing that puts them way ahead of people: they don't dissemble, and you don't have to pretend in front… — Ivan Klíma Animal Copy Share Image
Every few seconds a new book sees the light of day. Most of them will just be a part of the hum… — Ivan Klíma Becoming Copy Share Image
To destroy is easier than to create, and that is why so many people are ready to demonstrate against what they reject.… — Ivan Klíma Easier Copy Share Image
Most people can't imagine a life that is any different from the one they are actually living. They can dream about it,… — Ivan Klíma Actually living Copy Share Image
Man is afraid to attain what he longs for, just as subconsciously he longs for what he is afraid of. — Ivan Klíma Fear Copy Share Image
“Far better that false hope should lull you, Than that sheer blackness yawn at you” — Ivan Klíma False hope Copy Share Image
