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“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden

“All thinking men are atheists.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

“Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
― William Faulkner

“Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.”
― William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

“When the shadow of the sash appeared on the curtains it was between seven and eight o' clock and then I was in time again, hearing the watch. It was Grandfather's and when Father gave it to me he said I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire; it's rather excruciating-ly apt that you will use it to gain the reducto absurdum of all human experience which can fit your individual needs no better than it fitted his or his father's. I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.”
― William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

“Ljudi preziru sve one koji ne uspiju, a mrze one koji se uspnu iznad njih; Navikni se na prezir ako želis mir, ili na mržnju ako pristaneš na borbu...”
― Meša Selimović, Death and the Dervish

“Do kraja života upoznaću ljude a nikad ih upoznati neću uvijek će me zbunjivati neobjašnjivošću svojih postupaka.”
― Meša Selimović, Death and the Dervish

“Trebalo bi ubijati prošlost sa svakim danom što se ugasi. Izbrisati je da ne postoji, da ne boli. Lakše bi se podnosio dan što traje, ne bi se merio onim što više ne postoji. Ovako se mešaju utvare i život, pa nema ni čistog sećanja, ni čistog života.”
― Meša Selimović, Death and the Dervish

“Otići ću jednom.
Kuda?
Ma kuda.
Kada?
Nikada.
Čim đavo preciznosti došapne vrlo određena pitanja, maštanje nestaje. Ostaje tuga. Ostaje život oko nas.”
― Meša Selimović, Ostrvo

“Bismilahir-rehmanir-rahim
I call to witness the ink, the quill, and the script,
which flows from the quill;
I call to witness the faltering shadows of the sinking evening,
the night and all she enlivens;
I call to witness the moon when she waxes, and the sunrise when it dawns.
I call to witness the Resurrection Day and the soul that accuses itself;
I call to witness time, the beginning and end of all things - to witness that every man always suffers loss.”
― Meša Selimović, Death and the Dervish

“Hiljadu puta se pokaješ za ono što kažeš, rijetko za ono što prećutiš.”
― Meša Selimović, Death and the Dervish

“Rekao je: Nisu za griješnicima plakali ni nebo ni zemlja. A ja sam mislio: teško čovjeku ako su mu mjera nebo i zemlja.”
― Meša Selimović

“Samo si mene imao, osim onih grobova kod kuće, sad više nikog nemamo ni ti ni ja, ti si mene izgubio prije nego ja tebe, ili možda nisi, možda si mislio da stojim pred ovom okovanom kapijom, kao što bi ti stajao zbog mene, možda si se do posljednjeg časa nadao da ću ti pomoći, i kamo sreće da si mi toliko vjerovao, ne bi te uhvatio strah od konačne samoće, kad nas svi napuste. A ako si sve znao, neka mi Bog pomogne.”
― Meša Selimović, Death and the Dervish

“Boj se ovna, boj se govna, a kada ću živjeti?”
― Meša Selimović, The Fortress

“Rat je surova ali poštena borba, kao među životinjama. Život u miru je surova borba, ali nepoštena, kao među ljudima. Razlika je ogromna.”
― Meša Selimović, The Fortress

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“A good friend will always stab you in the front.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”
― Oscar Wilde

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“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

“Life itself is a quotation.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“We have convictions only if we have studied nothing thoroughly.”
― Emil Cioran

“To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.”
― William Blake, Auguries of Innocence

“Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgment.”
― Mario Puzo, The Godfather

“Diplomacy without arms is like a concert without a score”
― Frederick the Great

“If you are going through hell, keep going.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.”
― Winston S. Churchill