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  • #1
    Michel de Montaigne
    “On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.”
    Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

  • #2
    Elizabeth  Taylor
    “The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.”
    Elizabeth Taylor

  • #3
    Cormac McCarthy
    “You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”
    Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men

  • #4
    Ernest Hemingway
    “There's no one thing that's true. It's all true.”
    Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls

  • #5
    Danilo Kiš
    “Kad budu svi roktali svojim svinjskim srcima, poslednji koji će još gledati ljudskim očima i osećati ljudskim srcem biće oni kojima ne bejaše strano iskustvo umetnosti.”
    Danilo Kiš

  • #6
    Danilo Kiš
    “Ne volim ljude koji se izvlače iz sveta kao kišne gliste. Bez ožiljka i bez ogrebotine. Komedijaši. Agnosceo veteris vestigia flamme. Ožiljkom jednim obogaćen.”
    Danilo Kiš

  • #7
    Taylor Caldwell
    “A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.”
    Taylor Caldwell, A Pillar of Iron

  • #8
    Ken Follett
    “Having faith in God did not mean sitting back and doing nothing. It meant believing you would find success if you did your best honestly and energetically.”
    Ken Follett, The Pillars of the Earth

  • #9
    Umberto Eco
    “There are four kinds of people in this world: cretins, fools, morons, and lunatics…Cretins don’t even talk; they sort of slobber and stumble…Fools are in great demand, especially on social occasions. They embarrass everyone but provide material for conversation…Fools don’t claim that cats bark, but they talk about cats when everyone else is talking about dogs. They offend all the rules of conversation, and when they really offend, they’re magnificent…Morons never do the wrong thing. They get their reasoning wrong. Like the fellow who says that all dogs are pets and all dogs bark, and cats are pets, too, therefore cats bark…Morons will occasionally say something that’s right, but they say it for the wrong reason…A lunatic is easily recognized. He is a moron who doesn’t know the ropes. The moron proves his thesis; he has logic, however twisted it may be. The lunatic on the other hand, doesn’t concern himself at all with logic; he works by short circuits. For him, everything proves everything else. The lunatic is all idée fixe, and whatever he comes across confirms his lunacy. You can tell him by the liberties he takes with common sense, by his flashes of inspiration, and by the fact that sooner or later he brings up the Templars…There are lunatics who don’t bring up the Templars, but those who do are the most insidious. At first they seem normal, then all of a sudden…”
    Umberto Eco, Foucault’s Pendulum

  • #10
    Umberto Eco
    “Sometimes I look a the Moon, and I imagine that those darker spots are caverns, cities, islands, and the places that shine are those where the sea catches the light of the sun like the glass of a mirror...I would like to tell of war and friendship among the various parts of the body, the arms that do battle with the feet, and the veins that make love with the arteries or the bones with the marrow. All the stories I would like to write persecute me when I am in my chamber, it seems as if they are all around me, the little devils, and while one tugs at my ear, another tweaks my nose, and each says to me, 'Sir, write me, I am beautiful'.”
    Umberto Eco

  • #11
    Kobayashi Issa
    “O snail
    Climb Mount Fuji
    But slowly, slowly!”
    Kobayashi Issa

  • #12
    Tony Parsons
    “I'm not saying it's what I would have wanted. But don't you see? We fuck up our lives again and again and it's always our children who pick up the bill. We move on to new relationships, always starting over, always thinking we've got another chance to get it right, it's the kids from all these broken marriages who pay the price. They - my son, your daughters, all the millions like them - are carrying around wounds that are going to last a lifetime. It has to stop.”
    Tony Parsons, Man and Boy
    tags: boy, family, man

  • #13
    Tony Parsons
    “If you are always craving, always wanting, never satisfied, never happy with what you've got, you end up even more lost and lonely than you do...”
    Tony Parsons, Man and Boy

  • #14
    Tony Parsons
    “I think that the spirit lives on, I don't know if it's in heaven or if it's somewhere else, some other place that I don't know anything about. But it doesn't just die. It lives on. Even if it's only in the hearts of the people we love.”
    Tony Parsons, Man and Boy

  • #15
    Samuel Adams
    “If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.”
    Samuel Adams

  • #16
    Theodore Dalrymple
    “Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.”
    Theodore Dalrymple

  • #17
    William Shakespeare
    “Tis the times' plague, when madmen lead the blind.”
    William Shakespeare, King Lear

  • #18
    Vladislav Petković DIS
    “MOŽDA SPAVA

    Zaboravio sam jutros pesmu jednu ja.
    Pesmu jednu u snu što sam svu noć slušao:
    Da je čujem uzalud sam danas kušao,
    Kao da je pesma bila sreća moja sva.
    Zaboravio sam jutros pesmu jednu ja.

    U snu svome nisam znao za buđenja moć,
    I da zemlji treba sunca, jutra i zore;
    Da u danu gube zvezde bele odore;
    Bledi mesec da se kreće u umrlu noć.
    U snu svome nisam znao za buđenja moć.

    Ja sad jedva mogu znati da imadoh san.
    I u njemu oči neke, nebo nečije,
    Neko lice ne znam kakvo,možda dečije,
    Staru pesmu,stare zvezde, neki stari dan,
    Ja sad jedva mogu znati da imadoh san.

    Ne sećam se ničeg više, ni očiju tih:
    Kao da je san mi ceo bio od pene,
    Il' te oči da su moja duša van mene;
    Ni arije, ni sveg drugog, što ja noćas snih:
    Ne sećam se ničeg više, ni očiju tih.

    Ali slutim, a slutiti još jedino znam.
    Ja sad slutim za te oči da su baš one
    Što me čudno po životu vode i gone:
    U snu dođu da me vide šta li radim sam.
    Ali slutim, a slutiti još jedino znam.

    Da me vide, dođu oči, i ja vidim tad
    I te oči, i tu ljubav, i taj put sreće;
    Njene oči, njeno lice, njeno proleće
    U snu vidim, ali ne znam što ne vidim sad.
    Da me vide, dođu oči, i ja vidim tad;

    Njenu glavu s krunom kose i u kosi cvet,
    I njen pogled što me gleda kao iz cveća,
    Što me gleda, što mi kaže da me oseća,
    Što mi brižno pruža odmor i nežnosti svet,
    Njenu glavu s krunom kose i u kosi cvet.

    Ja sad nemam svoju dragu, i njen ne znam glas;
    Ne znam mesto na kom živi ili počiva;
    Ne znam zašto nju i san mi java pokriva;
    Možda spava, i grob tužno neguje joj stas,
    Ja sad nemam svoju dragu, i njen ne znam glas.

    Možda spava sa očima izvan svakog zla,
    Izvan stvari, iluzija, izvan života,
    I s njom spava, neviđena, njena lepota;
    Možda živi i doći će posle ovog sna.
    Možda spava sa očima izvan svakog zla.”
    Vladislav Petković Dis, Možda spava

  • #19
    Albert Camus
    “And I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice. I don't want any greatness for it, particularly a greatness born of blood and falsehood. I want to keep it alive by keeping justice alive.”
    Albert Camus, Resistance, Rebellion and Death: Essays

  • #20
    Tony Parsons
    “It's painful and it's messy. But sometimes you just have to make the break and start again.”
    Tony Parsons, Man and Wife



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