Quotes from The Palace of Dreams

“Every passion or wicked thought, every affliction or crime, every rebellion or catastrophe necessarily casts its shadow before it long before it manifests itself in real life.”
― Ismail Kadare, quote from The Palace of Dreams

“The government can catch a hare with an oxcart!”
― Ismail Kadare, quote from The Palace of Dreams

“Who can say it’s not what we see with our eyes open that is distorted, and that what’s described here isn’t the true essence of things?” He slowed down outside a door. “Haven’t you ever heard old men sigh that life’s a dream?”
― Ismail Kadare, quote from The Palace of Dreams

“This is where they keep the dreams about the end of the world, according to the inhabitants of places where the winters are very windy.”
― Ismail Kadare, quote from The Palace of Dreams

“Some people,” the Vizier went on, “think it’s the world of anxieties and dreams – your world, in short – that governs this one. I myself think it’s from this world that everything is governed. I think it’s this world that chooses the dreams and anxieties and imaginings that ought to be brought to the surface, as a bucket draws water from a well. Do you see what I mean? It’s this world that selects what it wants from the abyss.”
― Ismail Kadare, quote from The Palace of Dreams

“No existe pasión o pensamiento maléfico, adversidad o catástrofe, rebelión o crimen, que no proyecte su sombra en los sueños antes de materializarse en el mundo.”
― Ismail Kadare, quote from The Palace of Dreams

“إن العالم باهت إلى الدرجة التي لا يستحق معها عناء العذاب بسبب التفكير بأننا قد نفقده.”
― Ismail Kadare, quote from The Palace of Dreams

“[...] afirmaban que el Apocalipsis no era sino el día en que los sueños saldrían de la cárcel del dormir, pues la resurrección de los muertos que la gente concibe de forma trivial y metafísica, se produciría precisamente de ese modo. ¿No eran acaso los sueños mensajes enviados por ellos? Esta reivindicación secular de los muertos, este ruego, lamento, protesta, llámese como se quiera, será un día tomada en cuenta.”
― Ismail Kadare, quote from The Palace of Dreams

“¿Entiendes lo que te quiero decir? Si el globo terrestre desapareciera un día, si, por ejemplo, la Tierra se estrellase contra un cometa, se despedazara y se volatilizase o simplemente se precipitara en el abismo, si por tanto nuestro globo desapareciera sin dejar otro rastro que este sótano repleto de cartapacios, este sótano bastaría para comprender lo que había sido este mundo.”
― Ismail Kadare, quote from The Palace of Dreams

“Los delirios eran escasos com tiburones atrapados en las redes repletas de peces comunes”
― Ismail Kadare, quote from The Palace of Dreams

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