The French by their nature had a permanent hunger for sensation. This was even more true of the eighteenth century, of which that considerable expert Victor du Bled remarked that no other age was ever so bored.

~ Antal Szerb

Antal Szerb French History History Hungarian Hungarian Nonfiction

It is not the business of a Queen to be human.

~ Antal Szerb

Antal Szerb French History History Hungarian Hungarian Nonfiction

If you spent time thinking about the future, you wouldn't be a true adventurer. An adventure is something that happens from one moment to the next; in which there is no yesterday and no tomorrow. Everything else is just petty bourgeois.

~ Antal Szerb

Antal Szerb French History History Hungarian Hungarian Nonfiction