Sekyra (Edice Přilív) Quotes

“At the funeral the meaning of all funerals was revealed to me: they are the preparation for one's own death. The clerk asked me if four o'clock in the afternoon would be convenient. I said it would. "It's a nice hour," the clerk assured me. It was.”
― Ludvík Vaculík, The axe

“A fanatical psychosis of contempt possessed us and we succumbed to it gladly. In it I recognized the real thing, my genuine feeling about these festivals by international troupes of castrated morons and rarified conformist cows.”
― Ludvík Vaculík, The axe

“Uvědomujete si, přátelé, že celý váš život je stále se zpřesňující definice toho, čím už nikdy nebudete?”
― Ludvík Vaculík, The axe

“That Smetana and Dvořák, they were a fine pair of idiots, too," my brother remarked.

"I don't think they were, really," I said, after a moment's stunned silence.”
― Ludvík Vaculík, The axe