79 Quotes by Bohumil Hrabal


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    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.

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    Trembling as usual, I dropped to one knee and, holding on to the drum with one hand, looked up, wondering what he, my boss, had against me, what made him pull such terrifying faces, faces so indignant, so full of suffering that they always made me believe that I was a repulsive person and a hopeless worker who inflicted the most ignoble blows on his noble superior.

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    Dad almost delighted at how the graves had resisted, how they had had to bring caterpillar tractors, how the chains had burst, but in the end they had succeeded, they had to succeed in tearing those old times out of the ground...

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    […] la guardavo e mi si riempirono gli occhi di lacrime, non è che piangessi, avevo capito, avevo coscienza del fatto che dovevo farmi tatuare anch’io una barchetta così sul petto, che senza una barchetta come quella non potevo vivere, che quella barchetta doveva dare calore, che era l’emblema dell’anima, e che anch’io l’avrei avuta. Quella barchetta lì si può lavare?

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    Lecz uśmiecham się, bo w teczce niosę książki, po których się spodziewam, że wieczorem dowiem się z nich o samym sobie czegoś, czego jeszcze nie wiem.

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    [...] e io immaginai quale sorpresa sarebbe stata a Cana in Galilea, e molto più grande del miracolo del vino, se Gesù Cristo avesse portato in questo modo la sposa e Maria Maddalena in giro per la sala delle nozze, quale rafforzamento sarebbe stato per la fede cattolica, e in genere per tutte le persone che amano la religione, perché una forza così cara conquista non solo i cuoricini femminili, ma anche tutti i cuori degli uomini, soprattutto i cuori e le anime dei renaioli e dei marinai.

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