Occupation: Writer Birth: January 28, 1936
Can one move an empire as if it were a house?.
I could not understand how people could not like something as beautiful as the aerodrome. But I had lately become convinced that in general people we….
Winter hurled more wind and rain at the city than it ever had before. Clouds dashed about in all directions emptying their thunder, hail and rain. Th….
Who in the world has not yearned for a loved one, has never said, If only he or she could come back just once, just one more time...? Despite the fac….
I had three choices: to conform to my own beliefs, which meant death; complete silence, which meant another kind of death; to pay a tribute, a bribe.….
Not a single thought managed to take shape in her mind: for the likeness of this day to the last seemed to her the clearest proof that it would be an….
Dictatorship and authentic literature are incompatible... The writer is the natural enemy of dictatorship..
It was only a phrase that went from mouth to mouth and was never quite swallowed..
The days were heavy and sticky. All identical, one the same as the other. Soon they would even get rid of their one remaining distinction, the shell ….
In our city spring came from the sky, not from the soil, which was ruled by stone that recognizes no seasonal change. The change of the season could ….
His suspicion that he was not going in the right direction tortmented him more and more. At last he had the conviction that he would never go anywher….
To tell the truth, this was one of the few cases in which she had not told him just what she was thinking. Usually, she let him know whatever thought….
An Albanian’s house is the dwelling of God and the guest.’ Of God and the guest, you see. So before it is the house of its master, it is the house of….
The writer is always to some extent in exile, wherever he is, because he is somehow outside, separated from others; there is always a distance..
Shiny musical instruments wailed, their mouths open like lilies..
A mountaineer’s house, before being his home and the home of his family, is the home of God and of guests..
Can a country's people be better than its planes?.
If an animal has to be sacrificed when a new bridge is built, what will it take to build a whole new world?.
And everything would be different, different..