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"Sadness is also a kind of defence."

Ivo Andric, Bosnian Writer

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"Sadness is also a kind of defence."

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"Searching for what I need, and I don't even know precisely what that is, I was going from a man to a man, and I saw that all of them together have less than me who has nothing, and that I left to each of them a bit of that what I don't have and I've been searching for."

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"Sadness is also a kind of defence."

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