"It's interesting how young poets think of death……" — Bohumil Hrabal
"It's interesting how young poets think of death while old fogies think of girls."
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Bohumil Hrabal
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15 Quotes by Bohumil Hrabal
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To spend our days betting on three-legged horses with beautiful names
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I expect them to tell me things about myself I don't know...
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No book worth its salt is meant to put you to sleep, it's meant to make you jump out of…
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... because real thoughts come from outside and travel with us like the noodle soup we take to work; in…
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Because when I read, I don't really read; I pop a beautiful sentence into my mouth and suck it like…
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And so everything I see in this world, it all moves backward and forward at the same time, like a…
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He was a gentle and sensitive soul, and therefore had a short temper, which is why he went straight after…
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As I helped him up, I felt him shake all over, so I asked him to forgive me, without knowing…
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I always loved twilight: it was the only time of day I had the feeling that something important could happen.…
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Today's Gypsies, who have lived in Prague for only two generations, light a ritual fire wherever they work, a nomads'…
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I was always lucky in my bad luck.
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I can be by myself because I'm never lonely, I'm simply alone, living in my heavily populated solitude, a harum-scarum…
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More Death Quotes
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one of 13,020 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
— Hannah Arendt
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As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we…
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
— Aristotle
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To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death,…
— Aristotle
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I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating…
— Giorgio Armani
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I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every…
— J. J. Abrams
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Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a…
— Karen Armstrong
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Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom -…
— Matthew Arnold
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
— Matthew Arnold
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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
— Isaac Asimov
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Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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