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“You're not Dostoevsky,' said the citizeness, who was getting muddled by Koroviev. Well, who knows, who knows,' he replied.
'Dostoevsky's dead,' said the citizeness, but somehow not very confidently.
'I protest!' Behemoth exclaimed hotly. 'Dostoevsky is immortal!”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

“But would you kindly ponder this question: What would your good do if
evil didn't exist, and what would the earth look like if all the shadows
disappeared? After all, shadows are cast by things and people. Here is the
shadow of my sword. But shadows also come from trees and living beings.
Do you want to strip the earth of all trees and living things just because
of your fantasy of enjoying naked light? You're stupid.”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

“Was he an animal, that music could move him so? He felt as if the way to the unknown nourishment he longed for were coming to light.”
― Franz Kafka, Metamorphosis

“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

“Сè противречи едно на друго, сè протрчува едно крај друго, никаде нема сигурност. Сè може да се толкува вака, и сè може да се толкува обратно. Сета човечка историја може да се протолкува како развој и напредок, а истовремено без да се види нешто повеќе од пропаст и глупост. Зар нема вистина? Зар не постои вистинска и валидна наука?”
― Hermann Hesse , The Glass Bead Game

“Reality is just a crutch for people who can't handle drugs.”
― Robin Williams

“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

“The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.”
― Denis Waitley

“Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.”
― Hermann Hesse

“I’m just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else’s. I’m sick of everybody that wants to get somewhere, do something distinguished and all, be somebody interesting. It’s disgusting.”
― J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

“Follow me, reader! Who told you that there is no true, faithful, eternal love in this world! May the liar's vile tongue be cut out! Follow me, my reader, and me alone, and I will show you such a love!”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
― Cicero

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

“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
― Charles W. Eliot

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

“Oh, if only it were possible to find understanding,” Joseph exclaimed. “If only there were a dogma to believe in. Everything is contradictory, everything tangential; there are no certainties anywhere. Everything can be interpreted one way and then again interpreted in the opposite sense. The whole of world history can be explained as development and progress and can also be seen as nothing but decadence and meaninglessness. Isn’t there any truth? Is there no real and valid doctrine?”

The master had never heard him speak so fervently. He walked on in silence for a little, then said: “There is truth, my boy. But the doctrine you desire, absolute, perfect dogma that alone provides wisdom, does not exist. Nor should you long for a perfect doctrine, my friend. Rather, you should long for the perfection of yourself. The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught. Be prepared for conflicts, Joseph Knecht - I can see that they already have begun.”
― Hermann Hesse, The Glass Bead Game

“Nismo slepi prema činjenici da taj pokušaj donekle protivureči ili izgleda da protivureči zakonima i običajima koji vladaju u duhovnom životu. Jer jedno od vrhovnih načela našeg vrhovnog života je upravo gašenje individualnoga, po mogućstvu potpuno svrstavanje pojedinaca u hijerarhiju vaspitne vlasti i nauka."
"Savršena muzika ima svoje uzroke. Ona postaje iz ravnoteže. Ravnoteža postaje iz pravoga, pravo postaje iz smisla sveta. Otuda se o muzici može govoriti samo sa čovekom koji je spoznao smisao sveta.
Muzika počiva na harmoniji između neba i zemlje, na saglasnosti tmine i svetlosti."
"VERUJEM DA JOŠ NIKADA NISAM VIDEO KOLIKO JE LEP. AH, DA, TO MOŽDA DOLAZI OTUDA ŠTO GA PRVI PUT VIDIM KAO NEŠTO ŠTO MORAM NAPUSTITI I OD ČEGA SE MORAM OPROSTITI."
"Svaki od nas je samo čovek, samo pokušaj, uzgrednik. Ali on treba da bude na putu ka savršenom, treba da teži ka središtu, ne ka periferiji. Zapamti: čovek može da bude strogi logičar ili gramatičar, a pritom pun fantazije i muzike. Može se biti muzičar ili igrač staklenih perli, a pri tom sav odan zakonu i poretku. Čovek kakvog mi zamišljamo i želimo, kakav treba da postane prema našem cilju, mogao bi svakog dana svoju nauku ili umetnost zameniti svakom drugom. Iz njega bi u igri staklenih perli obasjavala najkristalnija logika, a u gramatici najstvaralačkija fantazija."
"Onaj ko se više penje i dobija veće zadatke, ne biva slobodniji - on je uvek samo odgovorniji."
"Odricanje od sadašnjice i sutrašnjice u korist savršenog, ali prošlog, to je bila uzvišena vrsta bekstva."
"Nikada nemoj ostavljati utisak kao da radiš, imaj vremena za svakoga ko želi s tobom da razgovara."
"TAKO TO BIVA KAD ČOVEK SVOJU SPOSOBNOST DA VOLI SAKUPI NA JEDAN JEDINI PREDMET. S NJEGOVIM GUBITKOM RUŠI SE SVE, A ČOVEK OSTAJE SAM U RUŠEVINAMA.”
― Herman Hese, Igra staklenih perli 1-2

“If I know what love is, it is because of you.”
― Hermann Hesse

“Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.”
― Hermann Hesse

“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“– Што работеше горе? – ќе прашаат, а сакаат да прашаат: „Чистеше ли клозети?“
– Имаше некој таму? – ќе кажат, а сакаат да кажат: „Оваа сигурно спиела со Арапи, црнци, Англичани, со кого не?..“
– Се врати да се видиш со твоите, а? – ќе прашаат, а мислат: „Се врати зашто ќе умреше за леб, не треба да ни објаснуваш, ние веќе сè знаеме!”
― Жарко Кујунџиски, Најдено-загубено

“A certain man once lost a diamond cuff-link in the wide blue sea, and twenty years later, on the exact day, a Friday apparently, he was eating a large fish - but there was no diamond inside. That’s what I like about coincidence.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Laughter in the Dark

“Instead of warning pregnant women not to drink,I think female alcoholics ought to be told not to fuck”
― George Carlin

“You only lose what you cling to.”
― Guatama Buddha

“I mean, say that you figure that everything is senseless, then it can't be quite senseless because you are aware that it's senseless and your awareness of senselessness almost gives it sense. You
know what I mean?”
― Charles Bukowski, Pulp: Charles Bukowski's Final Hardboiled Noir Comedy – Lady Death, Aliens, and the Absurd

“Oh, love isn't there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.”
― Hermann Hesse, Wer lieben kann, ist glücklich. Über die Liebe

“The power of women! I've never felt so full of mysterious power. Men are a joke.
We're so weak physically, so helpless with things. Still, even today. But we're stronger than they are. We can stand their cruelty. They can't stand ours.”
― John Fowles, The Collector

“I think we are just insects, we live a bit and then die and that’s the lot. There’s no mercy in things. There’s not even a Great Beyond. There’s nothing.”
― John Fowles, The Collector

“All literature is gossip”
― Truman Capote

“The real hero is always a hero by mistake.”
― Umberto Eco