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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
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
Not until we're totally crushed do we show what we are made of.
— Bohumil Hrabal
I was always lucky in my bad luck.
— Bohumil Hrabal
Like a flash of lightning Arthur Schopenhauer appeared to me and said, The highest law is love, the love that is compassion,
— Bohumil Hrabal
Even in my bad luck I have always been lucky.
— Bohumil Hrabal
For we are like olives: only when we are crushed do we yield what is best in us. After
— Bohumil Hrabal
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
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
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
... 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
