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Bohumil Hrabal quotes: If a book has anything to say, it burns with a quiet laugh, because any book worth its salt points up and out of itself.

If a book has anything to say, it burns with a quiet laugh, because any book worth its salt points up and out of itself.

Bohumil Hrabal quotes: It's interesting how young poets think of death while old fogies think of girls.

It's interesting how young poets think of death while old fogies think of girls.

Bohumil Hrabal quotes: Through the station went a goods train, spitting sparks from its chimney. Viktoria stood at the window and combed those sparks out of her hair.

Through the station went a goods train, spitting sparks from its chimney. Viktoria stood at the window and combed those sparks out of her hair.

Bohumil Hrabal quotes: Not until we're totally crushed do we show what we are made of.

Not until we're totally crushed do we show what we are made of.

Bohumil Hrabal quotes: I was always lucky in my bad luck.

I was always lucky in my bad luck.

Bohumil Hrabal quotes: Like a flash of lightning Arthur Schopenhauer appeared to me and said, The highest law is love, the love that is compassion,

Like a flash of lightning Arthur Schopenhauer appeared to me and said, The highest law is love, the love that is compassion,

Bohumil Hrabal quotes: Even in my bad luck I have always been lucky.

Even in my bad luck I have always been lucky.

Bohumil Hrabal quotes: The heavens may be far from humane, but I'd had about all I could take. So

The heavens may be far from humane, but I'd had about all I could take. So

Bohumil Hrabal quotes: You can't rid yourself of freedom the way you'd rid yourself of lice, brother.

You can't rid yourself of freedom the way you'd rid yourself of lice, brother.

Bohumil Hrabal quotes: I pop a beautiful sentence into my mouth and suck it like a fruit drop.

I pop a beautiful sentence into my mouth and suck it like a fruit drop.

Bohumil Hrabal quotes: For we are like olives: only when we are crushed do we yield what is best in us. After

For we are like olives: only when we are crushed do we yield what is best in us. After

Bohumil Hrabal quotes: And I look on my brain as a mass of hydraulically compacted thoughts, a bale of ideas, and my head as a smooth, shiny Aladdin's lamp.

And I look on my brain as a mass of hydraulically compacted thoughts, a bale of ideas, and my head as a smooth, shiny Aladdin's lamp.

Bohumil Hrabal quotes: The heavens are not humane, nor is any man with a head on his shoulders. Here

The heavens are not humane, nor is any man with a head on his shoulders. Here

Bohumil Hrabal quotes: He was a gentle and sensitive soul, and therefore had a short temper, which is why he went straight after everything with an ax ...

He was a gentle and sensitive soul, and therefore had a short temper, which is why he went straight after everything with an ax ...

Bohumil Hrabal quotes: Ten times a day, every day, I wonder at having wandered so far, and then, alienated from myself, a stranger to myself, I go home

Ten times a day, every day, I wonder at having wandered so far, and then, alienated from myself, a stranger to myself, I go home

Bohumil Hrabal quotes: To spend our days betting on three-legged horses with beautiful names

To spend our days betting on three-legged horses with beautiful names

Bohumil Hrabal quotes: ... whichever of my friends was and is sensitive, touchy even, had to choose... emigration... and I emigrated inwardly, here to the pub for example...

... whichever of my friends was and is sensitive, touchy even, had to choose... emigration... and I emigrated inwardly, here to the pub for example...

Bohumil Hrabal quotes: Writing is a defence against boredom, but it's also a cure for melancholy.

Writing is a defence against boredom, but it's also a cure for melancholy.