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Quotes by Serbian Authors

"In the biggest and the smallest I sleep but at the same place I stay."

"There is a moonlight note in the Moonlight Sonata, there is a thunder note in an angry sky."

"There are those who speak and those who dream."

"What are all these writers fighting for? For their own victory or for the victory of their profession?"

"Possible is more a matter of attitude, A matter of decision, to choose Among the impossible possibilities, When one sound opportunity Becomes a possible solution."

"He did not waste time in a vain search for a place in history."

"Life is only a flicker of melted ice."

"Every star was once darker than the night, before it awoke."

"Since there is no real silence, Silence will contain all the sounds, All the words, all the languages, All knowledge, all memory."

"Deliver thunder, GodIf you choose not to talk."

"It is beautiful to express love and even more beautiful to feel it."

"There are anonymous poems and poets without poems."

"My mathematics is simple: one plus one = one."

"How does one say something new and not retell?"

"Statesmen are grocers, ambitious clowns."

"If emptiness is empty, how can something be borne or awaken from it?"

"To go against the grain is the secret of bravery."

"We like to admit to only that which already glows, although it is nobler to support brightness before it glows, not afterwards."

"A smiling lie is a whirlwind, easy to enter, but hard to escape."

"Universe is the Sun watching its own self."

"In a myriad of ways you tell one truth."

"A poem does not radiate from the name, but the name emanates from the poem."

"There is a pledge of the big and of the small in the infinite."

"There is nobody to wake up eternal seekers."

"Possible impossibility emerges From an impossible possibility, Or possibly, impossible possibility Blooms from the impossibly possible impossibility."

"In trying to be perfect, He perfected the art of anonymity, Became imperceptible And arrived nowhere from nowhere."

"A right word counts the silence, a bad word is counted by the page."

"It is easy to arrange the words in a story born out of a dream; for a story without a dream, a story itself is not enough."

"Dream by making and make by dreaming."

"We grow from our dreams."

"There are too many literati, yet very few are smart; knowledge is acquired far too easily."

"The farther away, the closer the home becomes."

"How alive is thought, invisible, yet without thought there is no sight."

"A well paid word deceives them. And what kind of a word is a word that has a price, high or low, which is adjusted to the price of fame, and how, long ago, when it was little appreciated, was it more valuable than it is today with a big price?"

"If we were to understand how important it is to say something and say it well, maybe we wouldn't write a single word, but that would be tragic."

"With your goal you make the one."

"A star needs a star."

"You ask how it is possible to be your own father and son. You should seek answers, although it is better to anticipate some, to be the light and dream."

"You are hurrying to the sweet place, To the nonsense chasing your spirit And in the nonsense you look for answers."

"In the end, the world returns to a grain."

"Without nothing, everything would be nothing."

"We hear only our own voices, still echoes returning to our emptiness."

"In the essence of truth lies deceit."

"When the long bygone Lee Po wanted to say something, he could do it with only a few words."

"We will go far away, to nowhere, to conquer, to fertilize until we become tired. Then we will stop and there will be our home."
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