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“„Тако обично бива. Оне које желимо да видимо не долазе у часовима кад на њих мислимо и кад их највише очекујемо, а појављују се у неком тренутку кад смо мислима најдаље од њих. И нашој радости због поновног виђења треба тада времена да се дигне са дна, где је потиснута, и појави на површини...”
― Ivo Andrić, Prokleta avlija

“- Ивана, усташо!
- Па то Хрватима и није нека увреда.
- Ивана, јеби се!
- То за жене и није увреда.”
― Marko Vidojković, Pikavci na plaži

“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”
― George Orwell

“Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy ready-made things in the shops. But since there are no shops where you can buy friends, men no longer have any friends.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“People have stars, but they aren't the same. For travelers, the stars are guides. For other people, they're nothing but tiny lights. And for still others, for scholars, they're problems... But all those stars are silent stars. You, though, you'll have stars like nobody else... since I'll be laughing on one of them, for you it'll be as if all the stars are laughing. You'll have stars that can laugh!... and it'll be as if I had given you, instead of stars, a lot of tiny bells that know how to laugh ...”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

“Four legs good, two legs bad.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

“Затим променисмо место и сместимо се за картање. Јер, то умемо: да се картамо, да псујемо и да ратујемо. Није много за наших двадесет година - сувише много је за двадесет година.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front

“We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces. The first bomb, the first explosion, burst in our hearts. We are cut off from activity, from striving, from progress. We believe in such things no longer, we believe in the war."
- All Quiet On The Western Front, Ch. 5”
― Erich Maria Remarque

“Нисам више могао да издржим. Изишао сам. Напољу се спустила магла. У даљини је шумило море. Са дрвећа је капало. Гледао сам наоколо. Више нисам био сам. На југу, иза хоризонта, урлао је сад један мотор. Иза магле, бледим путевима, јурила је помоћ. Фарови су сипали светлост, гуме су звиждале, а две руке чврсто држале волан. Два ока су продирала кроз таму, хладно и поуздано - очи мог друга...”
― Erich Maria Remarque

“I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow. I see how peoples are set against one another, and in silence, unknowingly, foolishly, obediently, innocently slay one another.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front

“But now, for the first time, I see you are a man like me. I thought of your hand-grenades, of your bayonet, of your rifle; now I see your wife and your face and our fellowship. Forgive me, comrade. We always see it too late. Why do they never tell us that you are poor devils like us, that your mothers are just as anxious as ours, and that we have the same fear of death, and the same dying and the same agony--Forgive me, comrade; how could you be my enemy?”
― Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front

“We are not youth any longer. We don’t want to take the world by storm. We are fleeing. We fly from ourselves. From our life. We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front

“Лук је као у откровењу схватио зашто је пропала грчка цивилизација. Никог више није било њоме да управља. Нико од Грка није хтео да влада и да се тако лиши уживања да по власти пљује.”
― Borislav Pekić, Besnilo

“You must have a cigarette. A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray