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Quotes by Romanian Authors
"One of the most difficult times in my life was when I escaped from Romania in November of 1989."
"Friendship based solely upon gratitude is like a photograph; with time it fades."
"One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other."
"Everything is pathology, except for indifference."
"They are imbeciles who call my work abstract. That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence of things."
"To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten."
"Only truthful hands write true poems. I cannot see any basic difference between a handshake and a poem."
"Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion."
"You cannot be anything if you want to be everything."
"Reason is a whore, surviving by simulation, versatility, and shamelessness."
"Anyone who speaks in the name of others is always an imposter."
"Architecture is inhabited sculpture."
"What surrounds us we endure better for giving it a name - and moving on."
"These airplanes we have today are no more than a perfection of a child's toy made of paper."
"Tolerance - the function of an extinguished ardor - tolerance cannot seduce the young."
"We die in proportion to the words we fling around us."
"Crime in full glory consolidates authority by the sacred fear it inspires."
"Revenge is not always sweet, once it is consummated we feel inferior to our victim."
"Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil."
"Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment."
"In order to have the stuff of a tyrant, a certain mental derangement is necessary."
"By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing."
"Nothing is so wearing as the possession or abuse of liberty."
"To Live signifies to believe and hope - to lie and to lie to oneself."
"Of course, most people remember that I received the first perfect 10 in Olympic gymnastics competition."
"Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves."
"I am elected by the people of Bucharest, not the dogs."
"What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity?"
"Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone."
"It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late."
"Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows."
"Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown."
"The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death."
"Was there ever something not known before it was recognized?"
"The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster."
"There hasn't been any art yet. Art is just beginning."
"In my opinion, we should search for a completely different flying machine, based on other flying principles."
"Only in the eyes of love you can find infinity."
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