Quotes from Gyula Krúdy

she believed a great happiness awaited her somewhere, and for this reason she remained calm as the days flew by.

I'd love to step off this well-trodden straight and boring path. To somehow live differently, think different thoughts, feel different feelings than others. It wouldn't bother me to be as alone as a tree on the plains. My leaves would be like no other tree's.

Only the insomniac looks on with open eyes, like a cadaver who forgot to die.

Let crazy life rush headlong on the highway for others; we shall contemplate the sunflowers, watch them sprout, blossom, fade away. Yesterday they were still giants, but now, in autumn, they are thatch on the roof.

No, I have no desire to be a feminist, I just want to be a female,

Spring!' thought Miss Maszkerádi. 'You are an idiot. I just don't believe you!

What you have loved remains yours.