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A Book of Memories QUOTES

A Book of Memories QUOTES

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

― Péter Nádas , A Book of Memories

2 " The harmony of two bodies expressed in this single touch, bridging their differences and bending their moral reserve, was as powerful and wild as
physical fulfillment, yet there was nothing false in this harmony, no
illusion created that just by touching, our bodies could express feelings
that rationality prevented us from making permanent; I might even say that
our bodies cooly preserved their good sense, scheming and keeping each
other in check, as if to say, I'll yield unreservedly to the madness of
the moment but only if and when you do the same; but this physical plea
for passion and reason, spontaneity and calculation, closeness and
distance, took our bodies past the point where, clinging to desire and
striving for the moment of gratification, they would seek a new and more complete harmony. "

― Péter Nádas , A Book of Memories

3 " 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. "

― Péter Nádas , A Book of Memories

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

― Péter Nádas , A Book of Memories

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

― Péter Nádas , A Book of Memories

6 " ...in the final analysis one is incapable of total self-annihilation, either mental or physical, not even having taken cyanide, for even then it's the poison, or the rope, or the water, or the bullet that does the job... "

― Péter Nádas , A Book of Memories