Olyan író akarok lenni, aki a lét kapuin dörömböl, s a lehetetlent kísérli meg. Ami ezen alul van, azt lenézem - tessék megbocsátani szerénytelenségemért, hiszen még senki vagyok és semmi-, mégis lenézem, mélységesen megvetem.
Dezső KosztolányiNagyon elcsodálkozott, hogy neve is van, és hogy épp így hívják, Kasornya Kálmán. Nem valami dallamos vezetéknév, de van benne valami szomorú muzsika. Alapjában az is furcsa, hogy néhány betű jelent egy egész embert.
(Borotva)
El kellene készülni a halálra, mert oda se lehet készületlenül menni. Ő azonban úgy érezte, hogy aki a halálra elkészül, az az életre készül el, s csak az élhet, aki nyugodtan meg tudna halni.
(Borotva)
Her flesh was powdery and voluptuously weary, as if tenderized by all the different beds and arms in which she had lain. Her face was as soft as the pulpy flash of an overripe banana, her breasts like two tiny bunches of grapes. She exuded a certain seedy charm, a poetry of premature corruption and decay. She breathed the air as if it burned her palate, baking her small, hot, whorish mouth. It was as if she were sucking a sweet or slurping champagne.
Dezső KosztolányiStichwörter: age character description
At any rate, they were strange fellows, these bohemians. They lounged around doing nothing and told you they were working; they were frightfully miserable and yet would tell you that they were perfectly happy. They had more troubles than others but seemed to bear them better, as if they fed on suffering.
Dezső KosztolányiStichwörter: suffering bohemians
When people go away they vanish, turn to nothing, stop being. They live only in memories, haunting the imagination.
Dezső KosztolányiStichwörter: imagination people memories
He was no lover in a worldly sense; the only love he knew was that of divine understanding, of taking a whole life into its depths as if they were his own. From this, the greatest pain, the greatest happiness is born: the hope that we too will one day be understood, strangers will accept our words, our lives, as if they were their own.
Dezső KosztolányiStichwörter: understanding strangers
A drunkard never walks where he can fly.
Only the sober believe that the inebriate stagger to and fro. In reality they float on invisible wings and arrive everywhere much earlier than expected.
Stichwörter: drunkenness
I,' she began in her thoughts, as we all do when thinking of ourselves.
But this I was her, something, someone whose life she really lived. She was this I, in body and soul, one with its very flesh, its memories, its past, present and future, all of which we seal into a single destiny each time we face ourselves and utter that tiny, unalterable word: 'I.
Stichwörter: existence musings
He sat there among them, listened to the buzz of their conversation. He was captivated by them. In that racket every voice touched a key in his soul. He didn’t understand life. He had no conception of why he had been born into the world. As he saw it, anyone to whose lot fell this adventure, the purpose of which was unknown but the end of which was annihilation, that person was absolved from all responsibility and had the right to do as he pleased—for example, to lie full length in the street and begin to moan without any reason—without deserving the slightest censure. But precisely because he considered his life as a whole an incomprehensible thing, he understood its little details individually—every person without exception, every elevated and lowly point of view, every concept—and those he assimilated at once.
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