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“Tko nije naučio gledati nebo u potoku, ne zna što su ribe na drveću.”
― Ivo Andrić

“All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. This madness can be saving; it is part and parcel of the ability to adapt. Without it, no species would survive.”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

“Fantasy. Lunacy.
All revolutions are, until they happen, then they are historical inevitabilities.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“This is the seashore. Neither land nor sea. It’s a place that does not exist.”
― Alessandro Baricco, Ocean Sea

“Emotions, in my experience, aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in "sadness," "joy," or "regret." Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling. I'd like to have at my disposal complicated hybrid emotions, Germanic train-car constructions like, say, "the happiness that attends disaster." Or: "the disappointment of sleeping with one's fantasy." I'd like to show how "intimations of mortality brought on by aging family members" connects with "the hatred of mirrors that begins in middle age." I'd like to have a word for "the sadness inspired by failing restaurants" as well as for "the excitement of getting a room with a minibar." I've never had the right words to describe my life, and now that I've entered my story, I need them more than ever. ”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

“Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.”
― Khaled Hosseini

“Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors.”
― Khaled Hosseini

“Stories only happen to those who are able to tell them.”
― Paul Auster

“It seems to me that I will always be happy in the place where I am not.”
― Paul Auster

“All men contain several men inside them, and most of us bounce from one self to another without ever knowing who we are.”
― Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies

“Ja uopšte mislim da najčudniji ljudi izgledaju vrlo konvencionalno, vrlo
standardno. Jer čovek koji je zaista čudan iznutra, onaj koji je u dubokom
nesporazumu sa svetom koji ga ne prihvata i ne shvata, ne oseća nikakvu
potrebu da se ukrašava spolja, da privlači ičiju pažnju. Naprotiv! On želi
da se sakrije. Ima li čudnijeg ljudskog stvorenja od Kafke, na primer, a on
je gotovo čitavog života radio u jednom osiguravajućem društvu u Pragu,
ne razlikujući se spolja od ostalih činovnika.”
― Momo Kapor, Una

“beskonačno
kao kad grad posrne pa se nagnu
razine tekućina u prijepodnevnim šalicama
i umornom tijelu
s kojeg otpadaju imena
na ulici u mnoštvu trgovina
naš je susret potrošen
mi ne vrijedimo jer smo moderniji
od benzina na kojeg se voze bogovi
u otvorenim automobilima
dugačkom cestom njenim mokrim širokim leđima
na tvojem sam pupku spojio palčeve
a onda je zasjalo sunce i ja sam izgubio kosu
pa sam te volio i opet bio moderan
na putu do lunaparka
što blista u mom dalekom oku
dok je nebo sivo
dok je otok miran
dobrim velikim dlanom
razmazujem sol po tvom čelu”
― Ivica Prtenjača

“You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.”
― Annie Proulx

“Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.”
― Mary Oliver

“The transience of human feeling is nothing short of ludicrous. My mercurial fluctuations in the course of a single evening made me feel as if I had a character made pf chewing gum. I had fallen into the ugly depths of self-pity, a terrain just above the even more hideous lowlands of despair. Then, easily distracted twit that I am, I had, soon after, found myself on maternal heights, where I had practically swooned with pleasure as I bobbed and fondled the borrowed homunculus next door. I had eaten well, drunk too much wine, and embraced a young woman I hardly knew. In short, I had thoroughly enjoyed myself and had every intention of doing so again. [p. 59]”
― Siri Hustvedt, The Summer Without Men

“It is a joy to be hidden, and disaster not to be found.”
― D.W. Winnicott

“Every beginning, after all, is nothing but a sequel, and the book of events is always open in the middle.”
― Wislawa Szymborska

“I like old men. They can be wonderful bastards because they have nothing to lose. The only people who can be themselves are babies and old bastards.”
― John Updike, Couples

“Zakletve i postoje zato da ne bi bile ispunjene i da bi se njima prikrile naše slabosti i nemoć. I laži.”
― Dario Džamonja, Ako ti jave da sam pao...

“What it is

It is madness
says reason
It is what it is
says love
It is unhappiness
says caution
It is nothing but pain
says fear
It has no future
says insight
It is what it is
says love
It is ridiculous
says pride
It is foolish
says caution
It is impossible
says experience
It is what it is
says love.”
― Erich Fried, Es ist was es ist. Liebesgedichte. Angstgedichte. Zorngedichte

“I demand unconditional love and complete freedom. That is why I am terrible.”
― Tomaz Salamun

“There are eyes everywhere. No blind spot left. What shall we dream of when everything becomes visible? We'll dream of being blind.”
― Paul Virilio

“The past beats inside me like a second heart.”
― John Banville, The Sea

“Life's single lesson: that there is more accident to it than a man can ever admit to in a lifetime and stay sane.”
― Thomas Pynchon, V.

“You are never stronger...than when you land on the other side of despair.”
― Zadie Smith, White Teeth

“If religion is the opiate of the people, tradition is an even more sinister analgesic, simply because it rarely appears sinister. If religion is a tight band, a throbbing vein, and a needle, tradition is a far homelier concoction: poppy seeds ground into tea; a sweet cocoa drink laced with cocaine; the kind of thing your grandmother might have made.”
― Zadie Smith, White Teeth

“In the end, your past is not my past and your truth is not my truth and your solution - is not my solution.”
― Zadie Smith, White Teeth

“Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.”
― Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain

“Čovjek je mjera svih stvari, rekao je još. Neotuđivo je njegovo pravo prosuđivati o tome što je dobro a što zlo, što je istina a što opsjena, i jao si ga onome tko se usudi da ga zavede i da mu pokoleba vjeru u to njegovo stvaralačko pravo!”
― Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain

“Samo čovjek koji se baš nimalo ne razumije u ljubavne stvari mogao bi pomisliti da su takve dvojbe nauštrb ljubavi. Dapače, one su joj pravi začin. Tek one daju ljubavi žalac strasti tako da bi se strast mogla jednostavno definirati kao ljubav koja sumnja.”
― Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain