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“It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“Samo su dva iskonska straha, jesi znala to? Rodiš se sa strahom od glasnih zvukova i strahom od padanja. Ozbiljno, imaš na internetu. Ostalih stotinu fobija naučiš od bližnjih. Neke te čuvaju od opasnosti, da. Ali većina je tu samo da zbija šale s našim životima.”
― Kristian Novak, Ciganin, ali najljepši

“There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“The world to me was a secret, which I desired to discover; to her it was a vacancy, which she sought to people with imaginations of her own.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein

“The world was to me a secret which I desired to devine.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“Potatoes make everything okay.”
― Catriona Ward, Looking Glass Sound

“There’s no point in being grown up if you can’t act a little childish sometimes”
― The Fourth Doctor (Doctor Who)

“Our life is but a grain of sand in the indifferent ocean of infinity.”
― Sergei Dovlatov, The Suitcase

“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
― Joseph Brodsky

“Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

“People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception.”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein

“Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“When falsehood can look so like the truth, who can assure themselves of certain happiness?”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“We are fashioned creatures, but half made up.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein