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“Svašta se nauči na putu. Jebeš školu, jebeš faks, život je najbolji učitelj. Život izvan ovih naših granica: geografskih, moralnih i tradicionalnih. Na putu si primoran zaboraviti sve što si ikad naučio, shvatiti koje je iluzije u tebi gradila okolina, obitelj, škola, crkva, tradicija. Na putu si slobodan, na putu nitko ne prosuđuje tvoje postupke, nitko osim tebe samog. To ćeš naći na putu, istinskog sebe. I svoje odgovore, kad budeš imao dovoljno životnog iskustva u dupetu. Možeš čitati knjige, gledati dokumentarce, filozofirati s frendovima u zadimljenoj prostoriji Jazz Cluba, ali sve ti to vrijedi jedno veliko ništa. Dok ne odeš van i ne naučiš na vlastitom primjeru. Na vlastitim greškama. Zapamti to.”
― Tomislav Perko, 1000 Days of Spring

“There is this idea that you either read to escape or you read to find yourself.”
― Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive

“Humans, as a rule, don't like mad people unless they are good at painting, and only then once they are dead. But the definition of mad, on Earth, seems to be very unclear and inconsistent. What is perfectly sane in one era turns out to be insane in another. The earliest humans walked around naked with no problem. Certain humans, in humid rainforests mainly, still do so. So, we must conclude that madness is sometimes a question of time, and sometimes of postcode.

Basically, the key rule is, if you want to appear sane on Earth you have to be in the right place, wearing the right clothes, saying the right things, and only stepping on the right kind of grass.”
― Matt Haig, The Humans

“I don't think we did go blind, I think we are blind, Blind but seeing, Blind people who can see, but do not see.”
― José Saramago, Blindness

“There are infinite numbers between 0 and 1. There's .1 and .12 and .112 and an infinite collection of others. Of course, there is a bigger infinite set of numbers between 0 and 2, or between 0 and a million. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities. A writer we used to like taught us that. There are days, many of them, when I resent the size of my unbounded set. I want more numbers than I'm likely to get, and God, I want more numbers for Augustus Waters than he got. But, Gus, my love, I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity. I wouldn't trade it for the world. You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!”
― John Waters

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“Within a system which denies the existence of basic human rights, fear tends to be the order of the day. Fear of imprisonment, fear of torture, fear of death, fear of losing friends, family, property or means of livelihood, fear of poverty, fear of isolation, fear of failure. A most insidious form of fear is that which masquerades as common sense or even wisdom, condemning as foolish, reckless, insignificant or futile the small, daily acts of courage which help to preserve man's self-respect and inherent human dignity. It is not easy for a people conditioned by fear under the iron rule of the principle that might is right to free themselves from the enervating miasma of fear. Yet even under the most crushing state machinery courage rises up again and again, for fear is not the natural state of civilized man.”
― Aung San Suu Kyi, Freedom from Fear

“If you're feeling helpless, help someone. ”
― Aung San Suu Kyi

“And most of all, books. They were, in and of themselves, reasons to stay alive. Every book written is the product of a human mind in a particular state. Add all the books together and you get the end sum of humanity. Every time I read a great book I felt I was reading a kind of map, a treasure map, and the treasure I was being directed to was in actual fact myself.”
― Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive

“Svi mi imamo ili priču za ispričati ili sposobnost da je čujemo. Ako je imamo, na nama je da je ispričamo, a ako je čujemo, na nama je da je prenesemo dalje. U suprotnom, samo zatvaramo oči pred istinom i svijet ostavljamo onakvim kakvim smo ga našli. Usranim.”
― Tomislav Perko, 1000 Days of Spring

“Važna je strast kojom živiš ovaj život. Živiš li ga zbilja, ili samo prolaziš pored njega, nemajući vremena za male stvari, sitnice, čuda. Pasivni si promatrač, umjesto da budeš glavni glumac.”
― Tomislav Perko, 1000 Days of Spring

“A paradox: The things you don’t need to live—books, art, cinema, wine, and so on—are the things you need to live.”
― Matt Haig, The Humans

“A peasant that reads is a prince in waiting.”
― Walter Mosley, The Long Fall

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear”
― Aung San Suu Kyi

“Koja je to iluzija, zapravo. Fotografije s putovanja, putopisni filmovi, blogovi i statusi na fejsbuku - sve. Fotke poboljšaš, video urediš, priče skratiš i ispričaš samo one najzanimljivije. Nikad nećeš moći fotografirati trenutak kada si prvi put nešto vidio, uhvatiti svoj osjećaj u tom trenutku. Nikad nećeš snimiti vjerodostojan video jer saznanje da se snima čitavu situaciju stavlja u drugačiji kontekst, oduzima mu slobodu, prirodnost. Nijednu priču neću moći ispričati, prenijeti točno onako kako se odvijala, na koji način, kojim intenzitetom i što sam osjećao dok se to događalo.
Prava istina, prava ljepota je sve ono što se događa između tih fotki, tih filmova, tih ispričanih priča. Sve ono što se ne da uhvatiti fotoaparatom, kamerom ili olovkom. Sve ono što se ne može ispričati.”
― Tomislav Perko, 1000 dana ljeta

“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot. ”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“[...]the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes “Awww!”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

“Progress means getting nearer to the place you want to be. And if you have taken a wrong turn, then to go forward does not get you any nearer.
If you are on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; and in that case the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive man.”
― C.S. Lewis

“I have a million things to talk to you about. All I want in this world is you. I want to see you and talk. I want the two of us to begin everything from the beginning.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Tomorrow will probably be another day like today. Happiness will never come my way. I know that. But it's probably best to go to sleep believing that it will surely come, tomorrow it will come. I purposely made a loud thump as I fell into bed. Ah, that feels good. The futon was cool, just the right temperature against my back, and it was simply delightful. Sometimes happiness arrives one night too late. The thought occurred to me as I lay there. You wait and wait for happiness, and when finally you can't bear it any longer, you rush out of the house, only to hear later that a marvelous happiness arrived the following day at the home you had abandoned, and now it was too late. Sometimes happiness arrives one night too late. Happiness... I”
― Osamu Dazai, Schoolgirl