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At that moment Švejk looked as if he had fallen down from the sky from some other planet and he was now looking with naïve wonder at a new world where people were demanding from him idiotic nonsense w...

Jaroslav Hašek

At that moment Švejk looked as if he had fallen down from the sky from some other planet and he was now looking with naïve wonder at a new world where people were demanding from him idiotic nonsense w...

Sometimes I notice I'm demented, especially at sunset.

Jaroslav Hašek

Sometimes I notice I'm demented, especially at sunset.

Tags: insanity

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Jaroslav Hašek (Czech: [ˈjaroslaf ˈɦaʃɛk]; 1883–1923) was a Czech writer, humorist, satirist, journalist, bohemian, first anarchist and then communist, and commissar of the Red Army against the Czechoslovak Legion. He is best known for his novel The Fate of the Good Soldier Švejk during the World War, an unfinished collection of farcical incidents about a soldier in World War I and a satire on the ineptitude of authority figures. The novel has been translated into about 60 languages, making it the most translated novel in Czech literature.

War demanded valour even in pilfering.

Jaroslav Hašek

War demanded valour even in pilfering.

Preparations for the slaughter of mankind have always been made in the name of God or some supposed higher being which men have devised and created in their own imagination.

Jaroslav Hašek

Preparations for the slaughter of mankind have always been made in the name of God or some supposed higher being which men have devised and created in their own imagination.

The lieutenant’s fooling around again with the telegraph girl at the station, said the corporal, after he had gone. He’s been running after her for a fortnight and he’s always frightfully furious when...

Jaroslav Hašek

The lieutenant’s fooling around again with the telegraph girl at the station, said the corporal, after he had gone. He’s been running after her for a fortnight and he’s always frightfully furious when...

Tags: humorous

Não há nada pior para se trabalhar que um povo como o daquelas bandas, que não sabe ler nem escrever e só assina com três cruzinhas, o que a nossa intendência sabia muito bem, de forma que, quando man...

Jaroslav Hašek

Não há nada pior para se trabalhar que um povo como o daquelas bandas, que não sabe ler nem escrever e só assina com três cruzinhas, o que a nossa intendência sabia muito bem, de forma que, quando man...

Jesus Christ was innocent too,' said Svejk, 'and all the same they crucified him. No one anywhere has ever worried about a man being innocent. Maul halten und weiter dienen ['Grin and bear it and get...

Jaroslav Hašek

Jesus Christ was innocent too,' said Svejk, 'and all the same they crucified him. No one anywhere has ever worried about a man being innocent. Maul halten und weiter dienen ['Grin and bear it and get...

Tags: inspirational, irony, svejk

In de loop van de vijf, zes jaar dat ik in Rusland verbleef, ben ik een paar keer door diverse organisaties en individuen gedood dan wel doodverklaard.

Jaroslav Hašek

In de loop van de vijf, zes jaar dat ik in Rusland verbleef, ben ik een paar keer door diverse organisaties en individuen gedood dan wel doodverklaard.

Tags: morbid, russian

I suffered the misfortune that I sat down at a table and started drinking one glass of beer after another.

Jaroslav Hašek

I suffered the misfortune that I sat down at a table and started drinking one glass of beer after another.

Havia um tenente Procházka que não ralhava muito. Apenas chamava ao seu ordenança: «Minha vaca graciosa». O seu ordenança, um tal Hibman, nunca lhe ouviu outro impropério. Esse Hibman habituou-se tant...

Jaroslav Hašek

Havia um tenente Procházka que não ralhava muito. Apenas chamava ao seu ordenança: «Minha vaca graciosa». O seu ordenança, um tal Hibman, nunca lhe ouviu outro impropério. Esse Hibman habituou-se tant...

Austria's victory crawled out of her latrines.

Jaroslav Hašek

Austria's victory crawled out of her latrines.

This is what opportunity brings with it. It's the self-determination of man. Every man in the course of his life eternal life undergoes countless changes and has to appear once in this worlds as a thi...

Jaroslav Hašek

This is what opportunity brings with it. It's the self-determination of man. Every man in the course of his life eternal life undergoes countless changes and has to appear once in this worlds as a thi...

Tags: svejk, the good soldier svejk

Aqui, na maioria dos casos, desvanecia-se toda a lógica e vencia o §, endoidecia o §, escumava o §, ria o §, ameaçava o §, e não conhecia perdão. Eram malabaristas de leis, comedores de letras de decr...

Jaroslav Hašek

Aqui, na maioria dos casos, desvanecia-se toda a lógica e vencia o §, endoidecia o §, escumava o §, ria o §, ameaçava o §, e não conhecia perdão. Eram malabaristas de leis, comedores de letras de decr...

You're right,' said the corporal. 'It serves editors like that right. They only stir the people up. Last year when I was still only a lance-corporal I had an editor under me and he called me nothing e...

Jaroslav Hašek

You're right,' said the corporal. 'It serves editors like that right. They only stir the people up. Last year when I was still only a lance-corporal I had an editor under me and he called me nothing e...

All along the line,' said the volunteer, pulling the blanket over him, 'everything in the army stinks of rottenness. Up till now the wide-eyed masses haven't woken up to it. With goggling eyes they le...

Jaroslav Hašek

All along the line,' said the volunteer, pulling the blanket over him, 'everything in the army stinks of rottenness. Up till now the wide-eyed masses haven't woken up to it. With goggling eyes they le...

After debauches and orgies there always follows the moral hangover.

Jaroslav Hašek

After debauches and orgies there always follows the moral hangover.

Resumindo, os húngaros são uma ralé que aí anda(...)- Também há um húngaro ou outro que não tem culpa de ser húngaro.

Jaroslav Hašek

Resumindo, os húngaros são uma ralé que aí anda(...)- Também há um húngaro ou outro que não tem culpa de ser húngaro.

É muito mau sinal - prosseguiu Svejk - que uma pessoa comece de repente a dar-se a umas considerações filosóficas quaisqueres, pois isso traz sempre um cheiro a delirium tremens.

Jaroslav Hašek

É muito mau sinal - prosseguiu Svejk - que uma pessoa comece de repente a dar-se a umas considerações filosóficas quaisqueres, pois isso traz sempre um cheiro a delirium tremens.

Não leves o teu servidor a julgamento, pois nenhum homem se justificará perante ti se não lhe concederes o perdão de todos os seus pecados, pelo que te rogo que não lhe tornes muito pesado o teu vered...

Jaroslav Hašek

Não leves o teu servidor a julgamento, pois nenhum homem se justificará perante ti se não lhe concederes o perdão de todos os seus pecados, pelo que te rogo que não lhe tornes muito pesado o teu vered...

Já estou farto disto - exclamou o segundo cabo.- Então é um homem feliz - disse Svejk. - Algumas pessoas nunca se fartam.

Jaroslav Hašek

Já estou farto disto - exclamou o segundo cabo.- Então é um homem feliz - disse Svejk. - Algumas pessoas nunca se fartam.