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“I realised the amazing power of literature and of the human imagination generally: to make the dead live and to stop the living from dying.” quote by Ivan Klíma — Download Open image

“I realised the amazing power of literature and of the human imagination generally: to make the dead live and to stop the living from dying.”

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“..the writer’s obsession – the desire to know and communicate, or, rather, to know everything so as to communicate with the greatest degree of…

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“Anyone longing to become a writer, for even a few moments of his life, will vainly weave fantastic events unless he has experienced that…

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“My father also told me that people had always suffered from being tied to the ground, from not being able to detach themselves from…

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Fear is the touch of death, death reminding us of its existence.

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“Man is reluctant to accept that his life has come to a conclusion in that most important respect, that his hopes have been fulfilled.…

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The world is like an enormous set of scales. When evil begins to outweigh good, angels cram themselves in on the lighter side. You…

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A picture was a motionless record of motion. An arrested representation of life. A picture was the kiss of death pretending to possess immutability.

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“The halcyon days of childhood, a time when everything lay open before him, when the most minor episodes could be construed as events and…

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Justice was revenge wrapping itself in a cloak of high principle.

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...there is little that comes so close to death as fulfilled love.

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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.

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“The Apocalypse can take different forms. The least dramatic, at first sight, is the one in which man perishes under an avalanche of useless…

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Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit.

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