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Ivan Klima quotes: Animals have one thing that puts them way ahead of people: they don't dissemble, and you don't have to pretend in front of them.

Animals have one thing that puts them way ahead of people: they don't dissemble, and you don't have to pretend in front of them.

Ivan Klima quotes: If you tell anything to a woman ... it's like putting it in the papers.

If you tell anything to a woman ... it's like putting it in the papers.

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

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

Ivan Klima quotes: 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.

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.

Ivan Klima quotes: Man is afraid to attain what he longs for, just as subconsciously he longs for what he is afraid of.

Man is afraid to attain what he longs for, just as subconsciously he longs for what he is afraid of.

Ivan Klima quotes: There is little that comes so close to death as fulfilled love.

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

Ivan Klima quotes: Justice was revenge wrapping itself in a cloak of high principle.

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

Ivan Klima quotes: Far better that false hope should lull you,Than that sheer blackness yawn at you

Far better that false hope should lull you,
Than that sheer blackness yawn at you

Ivan Klima quotes: Growing numbers of people, in their work, come into contact with a diminishing fragment of reality; as their world shrinks, so does their language.

Growing numbers of people, in their work, come into contact with a diminishing fragment of reality; as their world shrinks, so does their language.

Ivan Klima quotes: Paradise is, above all, the state in which the soul feels clean.

Paradise is, above all, the state in which the soul feels clean.

Ivan Klima quotes: If we lose our memory, we lose ourselves. Forgetting is one of the symptoms of death. Without memory we cease to be human beings.

If we lose our memory, we lose ourselves. Forgetting is one of the symptoms of death. Without memory we cease to be human beings.

Ivan Klima quotes: Graveyards remind us of the vanity of all human endeavour.

Graveyards remind us of the vanity of all human endeavour.

Ivan Klima quotes: Fear is the touch of death, death reminding us of its existence.

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