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“I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“Between the fear that something would happen and the hope that still it wouldn't, there is much more space than one thinks. On that narrow, hard, bare and dark space a lot of us spend their lives.”
― Ivo Andric

“Plan je O. K. Samo ga se događaji zbog nečeg ne drže.”
― Borislav Pekić, Besnilo

“La plus belle des ruses du diable est de vous persuader qu'il n'existe pas."

("The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist.")”
― Charles Baudelaire, Paris Spleen

“Ja! - Teška riječ, koja u očima onih pred kojima je kazana određuje naše mjesto, kobno i nepromjenjivo, često daleko ispred ili iza onog što mi o sebi znamo, izvan naše volje i izvan naših snaga. Strašna riječ koja nas, jednom izgovorena, zauvijek vezuje i poistovjećuje sa svim onim što smo zamislili i rekli i sa čim nikad nismo ni pomišljali da se poistovjetimo, a u stvari smo, u sebi, već odavno jedno.”
― Ivo Andrić, Prokleta avlija

“Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.”
― Charles Baudelaire

“Микрокосмос одлучује. Макрокосмос је тек крајња пројекција оног што се дешава у микрокосмосу.”
― Borislav Pekić, Besnilo

“I have cultivated my hysteria with pleasure and terror.”
― Charles Baudelaire

“The beautiful is always bizarre.”
― Charles Baudelaire

“Recimo da sam običan čovek, mada to nije sasvim tačno: nema običnih ljudi”
― Momo Kapor

“If people would know how little brain is ruling the world, they would die of fear.”
― Ivo Andric

“You are sitting and smoking; you believe that you are sitting in your pipe, and that your pipe is smoking you; you are exhaling yourself in bluish clouds. You feel just fine in this position, and only one thing gives you worry or concern: how will you ever be able to get out of your pipe?”
― Charles Baudelaire, Artificial Paradises

“I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Biti kod nas žrtva, mnogo je teže no igde drugde na svetu! Jer, nigde se od buduće žrtve ne traži da još i sama aplaudira svojoj sopstvenoj likvidaciji.”
― Momo Kapor, Knjiga žalbi

“Sve će proći. Ali, kakva je to utjeha? Proći će i radost, proći će i ljubav, proći će i život. Zar je nada u tome da sve prođe?”
― Mesa Selimovic, The Fortress

“I want you to be weak. As weak as I am.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
― Albert Camus