Antal Szerb Quotes

If An Aristocrat Became Bankrupt He Looked To The Sunshine Of Royal Providence [ ... ] But When The Nobility Sank Too Low To Qualify For Royal Notice, They Became Fraudsters, Trading On The Display Of Rank: The Man Would Become A Card-sharper Or Gigolo, While The Woman Sold Herself. Actual Work Would Have Been Unthinkable. It Would Have Offended Against The Ancient Order Of Things, Which Assigned That Role To The Middle Classes And The Peasantry. This Concept Is Difficult To Connect With Our Modern View Of The World, But Its Very Absurdity Follows Directly From The Fact That Everything In Its Old Order Was So Firm And Wonderful - With Everything In Its Eternally Appointed Place And Moving In Fixed Circles Like The Stars. There Was No Changing Your Lot In Life At Will: It Was Assigned To You Forever, By Birth. If You Fell Below Your Appointed Station, You Couldn't Just Swap It For Another - You Simply Plummeted Into The Void.

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