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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

Bohumil Hrabal Ax Humor Love Lovers Sensitive Soul Unrequited Love

Because when I read, I don't really read; I pop a beautiful sentence into my mouth and suck it like a fruit drop, or I sip it like a liqueur until the thought dissolves in me like alcohol, infusing brain and heart and coursing on through the veins to the root of each blood vessel.

~ Bohumil Hrabal

Bohumil Hrabal Books Literature Reading Words

No book worth its salt is meant to put you to sleep, it's meant to make you jump out of your bed in your underwear and run and beat the author's brains out.

~ Bohumil Hrabal

Bohumil Hrabal Authors Books Brains Sleep Underwear

As I helped him up, I felt him shake all over, so I asked him to forgive me, without knowing what for, but that was my lot, asking forgiveness, I even asked forgiveness of myself for being what I was, what it was my nature to be.

~ Bohumil Hrabal

Bohumil Hrabal Forgiveness

The closest one person can get to another is through silence.

~ Bohumil Hrabal

Bohumil Hrabal Intamacy Interpersonal Relationships Love Quietness Silence

I can be by myself because I'm never lonely; I'm simply alone, living in my heavily populated solitude, a harum-scarum of infinity and eternity, and Infinity and Eternity seem to take a liking to the likes of me.

~ Bohumil Hrabal

Bohumil Hrabal Isolation Solitude

It never ceased to amaze me, until suddenly one day I felt beautiful and holy for having had the courage to hold on to my sanity after all I'd seen and been through, body and soul, in too loud a solitude, and slowly I came to the realization that my work was hurtling me headlong into an infinite field of omnipotence.

~ Bohumil Hrabal

Bohumil Hrabal Omnipotence Sanity Solitude

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

~ Bohumil Hrabal

Bohumil Hrabal Freedom Responsibility

Lost in my dreams, I somehow cross at the traffic signals, bumping into street lamps or people, yet moving onward, exuding fumes of beer and grime, yet smiling, because my briefcase is full of books and that very night I expect them to tell me things about myself I don't know.

~ Bohumil Hrabal

Bohumil Hrabal Books Insp Reading Reading Books

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

~ Bohumil Hrabal

Bohumil Hrabal Boredom Melancholy Writing
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