“Who hasn't asked oneself, am I a monster or is this what it means to be human?”
The Hour of the Star (1977)
Zdroj: A Hora Da Estrela
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“Who hasn't asked oneself, am I a monster or is this what it means to be human?”
The Hour of the Star (1977)
Zdroj: A Hora Da Estrela
“The world's continual breathing is what we hear and call silence.”
Zdroj: The Passion According to G.H.
“She believed in angels, and, because she believed, they existed”
Zdroj: The Hour of the Star
“For one has the right to shout.
So, I am shouting.”
Zdroj: The Hour of the Star
“There it is, the sea, the most incomprehensible of non-human existences.”
An Apprenticeship, or The Book of Delights (1968)
“I only achieve simplicity with enormous effort.”
Zdroj: The Hour of the Star
“So long as I have questions to which there are no answers, I shall go on writing.”
Varianta: I only achieve simplicity with enormous effort. So long as I have questions to which there are no answers, I shall go on writing.
Zdroj: The Hour of the Star (1977), p. 11
“I don't know what to do with the horrifying freedom that can destroy me.”
Zdroj: The Passion According to G.H. (1964), p. 5
“Do not mourn the dead. They know what they are doing.”
Zdroj: The Hour of the Star
“Do you ever suddenly find it strange to be yourself?”
Zdroj: A Breath of Life
Zdroj: The Stream of Life
“But don't forget, in the meantime, that this is the season for strawberries. Yes.”
Zdroj: The Hour of the Star