Quotes
Authors
Josef Skvorecky

"There is beauty everywhere on earth, but there is greater beauty in those places where one feels that sense of ease which comes from no longer having to put off oneâ€™s dreams until some improbable future â€“ a future inexorably shrinking away; where the fear that has pervaded oneâ€™s life suddenly vanishes because there is... nothing to be afraid of."

Source : Josef Škvorecký (1986). “The engineer of human souls: an entertainment on the old themes of life, women, fate, dreams, the working class, secret agents, love and death”, Picador

Josef Skvorecky

#Dream Quotes #Shrinking Quotes #Ease Quotes

“It's amazing what some people read into songs.”
“No one in America should ever be afraid to walk down the street holding the hand of the person they love.”
“Success should stem from entrepreneurial creativity, not political connectivity.”
“Through every moment on stage for the first time, I felt like I was finally right where I belonged.”
“Absolute Evil is not the kingdom of hell. The inhabitants of hell are ourselves, i.e., those who pay our painful, embarrassing, humanistic duties to society and who are compromised by our intellectually dubious commitment to virtue, which can be defined by the perpetual smear-word of French polemic: the bourgeois. (Bourgeois equals humanist.) This word has long been anathema in France where categories are part of the ruling notion of logique. The word cannot be readily matched in England or America.”
“There are forces in life working for you and against you. One must distinguish the beneficial forces from the malevolent ones and choose correctly between them.”
“Sometimes you have to, as I say, build bridges where you can - but draw lines where you must.”
“Itâ€™s too bad if a heart lacks fire, and is deprived of the light of a heart ablaze. The day on which you are without passionate love is the most wasted day of your life.”

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