Quotes by Vladimir Bartol

Thats for the best. Otherwise they might realize theyre in prison. It cant be helped. You women are used to harems and prisons. A person can spend his whole life between four walls. If he doesnt think or feel that hes a prisoner, then hes not a prisoner. But then there are people for whom the whole planet is a prison, who see the infinite expanse of the universe, the millions of stars and galaxies that remain forever inaccessible to them. And that awareness makes them the greatest prisoners of time and space.

Theres one other thing Id like to remind you of, my dear. Thereve been many times when youve sworn to me that after all that life has dealt you, it was no longer possible for you to believe in anything. I replied that both life and my studies had led me to the same conclusion. I asked you, What is a person permitted, once hes realized that truth is unattainable and consequently doesnt exist for him? Do you remember your answer?I do, ibn Sabbah. I said something like this: If a person realized that everything people call happiness, love and joy was just a miscalculation based on a false premise, hed feel a horrible emptiness inside. The only thing that could rouse him from his paralysis would be to gamble with his own face and the face of others. The person capable of that would be permitted anything.

If a person realized that everything people call happiness, love and joy was just a miscalculation based on a false premise, hed feel a horrible emptiness inside. The only thing that could rouse him from his paralysis would be to gamble with his own face and the face of others. The person capable of that would be permitted anything.

“Thats for the best. Otherwise they might realize theyre in prison. It cant be helped. You women are used to harems and prisons. A person can spend his whole life between four walls. If he doesnt think or feel that hes a prisoner, then hes not a prisoner. But then there are people for whom the whole planet is a prison, who see the infinite expanse of the universe, the millions of stars and galaxies that remain forever inaccessible to them. And that awareness makes them the greatest prisoners of time and space.”