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Quotes by Serbian Authors

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

"After Homer and Dante, is a whole century of creating worth one Shakespeare?"

"When I want to be reminded of stupidity, especially my own, I turn on the TV."

"The same word we love and hate, leaves in different directions, taking different paths."

"His Highness was always confident in his statements, especially about what he viewed for the first time."

"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."

"While gazing at myself from yourself, I was beautiful."

"Life into death- Life's other shape, No rupture, Only crossing."

"Now that we are all so smart, we don't easily find resolutions."

"Universe is the Sun watching its own self."

"There is nobody to wake up eternal seekers."

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

"New Rome will be destroyedBy the attacks of new vandals.God always remains silent."

"To cut and tighten sentences is the secret of mastery."

"He awaits himself while walking, out of the icy circle to escape."

"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."

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

"Without space, there is no time."

"A word only writes Its night and ridesIts dream."

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

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

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

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

"Life is only a flicker of melted ice."

"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?"

"Good is not always good."

"If you are good, they say you are weak."

"Without nothing, everything would be nothing."

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

"Serious affairs and history are carefully laid snares for the uninformed."

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

"Statesmen are grocers, ambitious clowns."

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

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

"When within yourself you find the road, the right road will open."

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

"Pretense cannot sustain blind power."

"There are literary works that speak for themselves and there are writers who boast through work."

"Get close to grass and you'll see a star."

"Unwritten words grow out of silence."

"Courage is more important than to be deceived by shallow victory waiting for a delayed defeat."

"With your goal you make the one."

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

"I recreate myself, that is my only power."

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

"Dream by making and make by dreaming."
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