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Quotes by Romanian Authors
"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."
"One of the most difficult times in my life was when I escaped from Romania in November of 1989."
"Everything is pathology, except for indifference."
"Anyone who speaks in the name of others is always an imposter."
"Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows."
"Only truthful hands write true poems. I cannot see any basic difference between a handshake and a poem."
"To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten."
"Friendship based solely upon gratitude is like a photograph; with time it fades."
"Tolerance - the function of an extinguished ardor - tolerance cannot seduce the young."
"Reason is a whore, surviving by simulation, versatility, and shamelessness."
"One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other."
"I am elected by the people of Bucharest, not the dogs."
"Of course, most people remember that I received the first perfect 10 in Olympic gymnastics competition."
"Architecture is inhabited sculpture."
"Crime in full glory consolidates authority by the sacred fear it inspires."
"Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment."
"Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil."
"What surrounds us we endure better for giving it a name - and moving on."
"By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing."
"Nothing is so wearing as the possession or abuse of liberty."
"My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers."
"To Live signifies to believe and hope - to lie and to lie to oneself."
"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."
"Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves."
"These airplanes we have today are no more than a perfection of a child's toy made of paper."
"Revenge is not always sweet, once it is consummated we feel inferior to our victim."
"Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion."
"In order to have the stuff of a tyrant, a certain mental derangement is necessary."
"Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown."
"We die in proportion to the words we fling around us."
"The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death."
"If, at the limit, you can rule without crime, you cannot do so without injustices."
"In my opinion, we should search for a completely different flying machine, based on other flying principles."
"A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions."
"What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?"
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