Danilo Kis Quotes

• I dislike people who get out of things unscraped. No scars, no scratches. Agnosceo veteris vestigia flamme. Refined through a scar.

  Danilo Kis

  People, Scratches, Scar

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• You can't play the role of a victim all your life without becoming one in the end.

  Danilo Kis

  Becoming One, Play, Roles

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• Since childhood, I was afflicted with a sick hypersensitivity, and my imagination quickly turned everything into a memory, too quickly: sometimes one day was enough, or an interval of a few hours, or a routine change of place, for an everyday event with a lyrical value that I did not sense at the time, to become suddenly adorned with a radiant echo, the echo ordinarily reserved only for those memories which have been standing for many years in the powerful fixative of lyrical oblivion.

  Danilo Kis

  Memories, Powerful, Years

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• I start writing when I overcome my disgust with literature.

  Danilo Kis

  Writing, Overcoming, Literature

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• I would have liked to catch hold of sleep at least once, just as I had been resolved to catch hold of death one day, to catch hold of the wings of the angel of sleep when it came for me, to grab it with two fingers like a butterfly after sneaking up on it from behind. [...] My sleep game was practice for the grand struggle with death.

  Danilo Kis

  Struggle, Butterfly, Sleep

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