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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."
"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."
"Everything is pathology, except for indifference."
"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."
"One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other."
"Anyone who speaks in the name of others is always an imposter."
"Architecture is inhabited sculpture."
"Reason is a whore, surviving by simulation, versatility, and shamelessness."
"What surrounds us we endure better for giving it a name - and moving on."
"You cannot be anything if you want to be everything."
"Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion."
"These airplanes we have today are no more than a perfection of a child's toy made of paper."
"Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil."
"Revenge is not always sweet, once it is consummated we feel inferior to our victim."
"Crime in full glory consolidates authority by the sacred fear it inspires."
"Tolerance - the function of an extinguished ardor - tolerance cannot seduce the young."
"We die in proportion to the words we fling around us."
"Nothing is so wearing as the possession or abuse of liberty."
"Of course, most people remember that I received the first perfect 10 in Olympic gymnastics competition."
"What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity?"
"In order to have the stuff of a tyrant, a certain mental derangement is necessary."
"To Live signifies to believe and hope - to lie and to lie to oneself."
"By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing."
"Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment."
"Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows."
"I am elected by the people of Bucharest, not the dogs."
"Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves."
"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."
"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."
"There hasn't been any art yet. Art is just beginning."
"My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers."
"In my opinion, we should search for a completely different flying machine, based on other flying principles."
"Things are not difficult to make; what is difficult is putting ourselves in the state of mind to make them."
"When you see a fish you don't think of its scales, do you? You think of its speed, its floating, flashing body seen through the water... If I made fins and eyes and scales, I would arrest its movement, give a pattern or shape of reality. I want just the flash of its spirit."
"The more we try to rest ourselves from our Egos, the deeper we sink into it."
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