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“Those who boggle at strong language are cowards, because it is real life which is shocking them, and weaklings like that are the very people who cause most harm to culture and character. They would like to see the nation grow up into a group of over-sensitive little people--masturbators of false culture...”
― The Good Soldier Švejk
― The Good Soldier Švejk
“I declare
That later on,
Even in an age unlike our own,
Someone will remember who we are.”
― Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments
That later on,
Even in an age unlike our own,
Someone will remember who we are.”
― Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments
“I don't understand German myself. I learned it at school, but forgot every word of it two years after I had left, and have felt much better ever since.”
― Three Men in a Boat
― Three Men in a Boat
“Living had got to be such a habit with him that he couldn’t conceive of any other condition.”
― A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories
― A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories
“I was lying, but I wanted to rouse him. I have an inborn urge to contradict; my whole life has been a mere chain of sad and futile opposition to the dictates of either heart or reason. The presence of an enthusiast makes me as cold as a midwinter's day, and, I believe, frequent association with a listless phlegmatic would make me an impassioned dreamer.”
― A Hero of Our Time
― A Hero of Our Time
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