Ismail Kadare idézet

“And everything would be different, different.”

“If an animal has to be sacrificed when a new bridge is built, what will it take to build a whole new world?”

“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 of their names: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday.”

“Dictatorship and authentic literature are incompatible... The writer is the natural enemy of dictatorship.”

“Can one move an empire as if it were a house?”

“Thick smoke like a herd of black horses was rising over the massive building and being blown around by the wind.”