I can be by myself because I'm...

I can be by myself because I'm never lonely; I'm simply alone, living in my heavily populated solitude, a harum-scarum of infinity and eternity, and Infinity and Eternity seem to take a liking to the likes of me.

- Bohumil Hrabal

Too Loud a Solitude

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Other quotes by Bohumil Hrabal

It never ceased to amaze me, until suddenly one day I felt beautiful and holy for having had the courage to hold on to my sanity after all I'd seen and been through, body and soul, in too loud a solitude, and slowly I came to the realization that my work was hurtling me headlong into an infinite field of omnipotence.

- Bohumil Hrabal

You can’t rid yourself of freedom the way you’d rid yourself of lice, brother.

- Bohumil Hrabal

Lost in my dreams, I somehow cross at the traffic signals, bumping into street lamps or people, yet moving onward, exuding fumes of beer and grime, yet smiling, because my briefcase is full of books and that very night I expect them to tell me things about myself I don't know.

- Bohumil Hrabal

Writing is a defence against boredom, but it's also a cure for melancholy.

- Bohumil Hrabal

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