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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."
"Friendship based solely upon gratitude is like a photograph; with time it fades."
"Only truthful hands write true poems. I cannot see any basic difference between a handshake and a poem."
"Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows."
"To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten."
"Architecture is inhabited sculpture."
"Tolerance - the function of an extinguished ardor - tolerance cannot seduce the young."
"Reason is a whore, surviving by simulation, versatility, and shamelessness."
"Crime in full glory consolidates authority by the sacred fear it inspires."
"Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment."
"What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity?"
"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."
"One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other."
"What surrounds us we endure better for giving it a name - and moving on."
"Nothing is so wearing as the possession or abuse of liberty."
"Revenge is not always sweet, once it is consummated we feel inferior to our victim."
"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."
"By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing."
"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."
"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."
"My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers."
"Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion."
"The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death."
"We die in proportion to the words we fling around us."
"Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown."
"Simplicity is not an objective in art, but one achieves simplicity despite one's self by entering into the real sense of things."
"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."
"Things are not difficult to make; what is difficult is putting ourselves in the state of mind to make them."
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