4 Quotes by Péter Nádas

my foolishness had me believe that i was the story, and this bleak cold night merely its setting, but in fact my real story played itself out almost independently of me or, more precisely, occurred parallel to my own little adventures.

we remain children as long as we feel the urge to keep crossing this border and to learn.

if one could learn the most important things in life, one would still have to learn how to keep quiet about them.

...our own barbaric civilization, in awe of the act of creation, does not respect creation at all.