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Top 20 Ismail Kadare Quotes (2025 Update)

Ismail Kadare Quote: “The writer is always to some extent in exile, wherever he is, because he is somehow outside, separated from others; there is always a distance.”

1. “The writer is always to some extent in exile, wherever he is, because he is somehow outside, separated from others; there is always a distance.”

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Ismail Kadare Quote: “And everything would be different, different.”

2. “And everything would be different, different.”

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Ismail Kadare Quote: “A mountaineer’s house, before being his home and the home of his family, is the home of God and of guests.”

3. “A mountaineer’s house, before being his home and the home of his family, is the home of God and of guests.”

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Ismail Kadare Quote: “I had three choices: to conform to my own beliefs, which meant death; complete silence, which meant another kind of death; to pay a tribute, a bribe. I chose the third solution by writing The Long Winter.”

4. “I had three choices: to conform to my own beliefs, which meant death; complete silence, which meant another kind of death; to pay a tribute, a bribe. I chose the third solution by writing The Long Winter.”

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Ismail Kadare Quote: “Can one move an empire as if it were a house?”

5. “Can one move an empire as if it were a house?”

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Ismail Kadare Quote: “Having left, for various reasons, the homeland of epic, they were uprooted like trees overthrown, they had lost their heroic character and deep-seated virtue.”

6. “Having left, for various reasons, the homeland of epic, they were uprooted like trees overthrown, they had lost their heroic character and deep-seated virtue.”

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Ismail Kadare Quote: “Greater Albania?!“, this is a mockery of an unprecedented cynicism.”

7. “Greater Albania?!“, this is a mockery of an unprecedented cynicism.”

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Ismail Kadare Quote: “The memories of events and statesmen paled as the years passed. Dust covered them, mud stained them, until they were finally erased as if they had never been. But recently people had come to understand that forgetting was more difficult and complicated than remembering.”

8. “The memories of events and statesmen paled as the years passed. Dust covered them, mud stained them, until they were finally erased as if they had never been. But recently people had come to understand that forgetting was more difficult and complicated than remembering.”

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Ismail Kadare Quote: “It was only a phrase that went from mouth to mouth and was never quite swallowed.”

9. “It was only a phrase that went from mouth to mouth and was never quite swallowed.”

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Ismail Kadare Quote: “Winter hurled more wind and rain at the city than it ever had before. Clouds dashed about in all directions emptying their thunder, hail and rain. The horizon was choked in fog.”

10. “Winter hurled more wind and rain at the city than it ever had before. Clouds dashed about in all directions emptying their thunder, hail and rain. The horizon was choked in fog.”

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Ismail Kadare Quote: “If an animal has to be sacrificed when a new bridge is built, what will it take to build a whole new world?”

11. “If an animal has to be sacrificed when a new bridge is built, what will it take to build a whole new world?”

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Ismail Kadare Quote: “The days were heavy and sticky. All identical, one the same as the other. Soon they would even get rid of their one remaining distinction, the shell of their names: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday.”

12. “The days were heavy and sticky. All identical, one the same as the other. Soon they would even get rid of their one remaining distinction, the shell of their names: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday.”

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Ismail Kadare Quote: “In our city spring came from the sky, not from the soil, which was ruled by stone that recognizes no seasonal change. The change of the season could be glimpsed in the thinning of clouds, the appearance of the birds and the occasional rainbow.”

13. “In our city spring came from the sky, not from the soil, which was ruled by stone that recognizes no seasonal change. The change of the season could be glimpsed in the thinning of clouds, the appearance of the birds and the occasional rainbow.”

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Ismail Kadare Quote: “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.”

14. “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.”

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Ismail Kadare Quote: “Can a country’s people be better than its planes?”

15. “Can a country’s people be better than its planes?”

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Ismail Kadare Quote: “Their bodies were like corpses ready for embalming, from which all innards likely to rot had already been removed. Superfluous emotions like curiosity, fear and lust for gossip or excitement had been shed along with the useless flesh and excess fat. Javer once said that Granny Shano could as easily have grabbed the ear of Benito Mussolini himself as the Italian officer’s.”

16. “Their bodies were like corpses ready for embalming, from which all innards likely to rot had already been removed. Superfluous emotions like curiosity, fear and lust for gossip or excitement had been shed along with the useless flesh and excess fat. Javer once said that Granny Shano could as easily have grabbed the ear of Benito Mussolini himself as the Italian officer’s.”

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Ismail Kadare Quote: “The days went by without incident and often without their name. When you’d unpacked the hours from the day and then the night and piled them all up, you could toss the boxes they came in, which is all that “Wednesday” or “Friday” really are.”

17. “The days went by without incident and often without their name. When you’d unpacked the hours from the day and then the night and piled them all up, you could toss the boxes they came in, which is all that “Wednesday” or “Friday” really are.”

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Ismail Kadare Quote: “I could not understand how people could not like something as beautiful as the aerodrome. But I had lately become convinced that in general people were pretty boring. They liked to moan for hours on end about how hard it was to make ends meet, about the money they owed, the price of food, and other similar worries, but the minute some more brilliant or attractive subject come up, they were struck deaf.”

18. “I could not understand how people could not like something as beautiful as the aerodrome. But I had lately become convinced that in general people were pretty boring. They liked to moan for hours on end about how hard it was to make ends meet, about the money they owed, the price of food, and other similar worries, but the minute some more brilliant or attractive subject come up, they were struck deaf.”

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Ismail Kadare Quote: “Shiny musical instruments wailed, their mouths open like lilies.”

19. “Shiny musical instruments wailed, their mouths open like lilies.”

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Ismail Kadare Quote: “Sunday had spread all over the city. It looked as if the sun had smacked into the earth and broken into pieces and chunks of wet light were scattered everywhere – in the streets, on the window panes, on puddles and roofs. I remembered a day long ago when Grandmother had cleaned a big fish. Her forearms were splattered with shiny scales. It was as if she had Sunday in her whole body. When my father got angry, he had Tuesday.”

20. “Sunday had spread all over the city. It looked as if the sun had smacked into the earth and broken into pieces and chunks of wet light were scattered everywhere – in the streets, on the window panes, on puddles and roofs. I remembered a day long ago when Grandmother had cleaned a big fish. Her forearms were splattered with shiny scales. It was as if she had Sunday in her whole body. When my father got angry, he had Tuesday.”

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Ismail Kadare Quote: “I reckoned they had probably begun to pour out their hearts and entrust each other with the subjects of the plays and novels they had written or planned to write. It was customary after serious drinking.”

21. “I reckoned they had probably begun to pour out their hearts and entrust each other with the subjects of the plays and novels they had written or planned to write. It was customary after serious drinking.”

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Ismail Kadare Quote: “For in the nocturnal realm of sleep are to be found both the light and the darkness of humanity, its honey and its poison, its greatness and its vulnerability.”

22. “For in the nocturnal realm of sleep are to be found both the light and the darkness of humanity, its honey and its poison, its greatness and its vulnerability.”

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Ismail Kadare Quote: “The events were always hidden behind a veil drawn by an unknown power, and seemed to come from the realm of destiny. It was this that upset the everyday equilibrium, logic and the order of things.”

23. “The events were always hidden behind a veil drawn by an unknown power, and seemed to come from the realm of destiny. It was this that upset the everyday equilibrium, logic and the order of things.”

— Ismail Kadare

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