Kadare Man Quotes & Sayings

My father had very little formal education. — Daniel Berrigan

Pain both ways and what is worse? — Aeschylus

The real duties of an ambassador are to enter into or follow negotiations between his own government and that of the country to which he is accredited. — David K. E. Bruce

An Albanian's house is the dwelling of God and the guest.' Of God and the guest, you see. So before it is the house of its master, it is the house of one's guest. The guest, in an Albanian's life, represents the supreme ethical category, more important than blood relations. One may pardon the man who spills the blood of one's father or of one's son, but never the blood of a guest. — Ismail Kadare

Accepting the thought, emotion or sensation at face value is an act that is both loving and liberating. — Heidi DuPree

Why the Albanians had created the institution of the guest, exalting it above all other human relations, even those of kinship. "Perhaps the answer lies in the democratic character of this institution," he said, setting himself to think his way through the matter. "Any ordinary man, on any day, can be raised to the lofty station of a guest. The path to that temporary deification is open to anybody at any time.[ ... ] Given that anyone at all can grasp the sceptre of the guest," he went on, "and since that sceptre, for every Albanian, surpasses even the king's sceptre, may we not assume that in the Albanian's life of danger and want, that to be a guest if only for four hours or twenty-four hours, is a kind of respite, a moment of oblivion, a truce, a reprieve, and - why not? - an escape from everyday life into some divine reality? — Ismail Kadare

The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, and the fourth for madness. — Anacharsis