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Quotes by Serbian Authors

"The most complicated skill is to be simple."

"Sun is a hearthstone, a merry-go-round of extinguished hearthstones."

"In the essence of truth lies deceit."

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

"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."

"There is nobody to wake up eternal seekers."

"Good is not always good."

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

"If what we think of ourselves were true, the planet would overflow with geniuses."

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

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

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

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

"I visited many places, Some of them quite Exotic and far away, But I always returned to myself."

"We grow from our dreams."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"Universe is the Sun watching its own self."

"Statesmen are grocers, ambitious clowns."

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

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

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

"With your goal you make the one."

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

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

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

"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."

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

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

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

"Dream by making and make by dreaming."

"There are anonymous poems and poets without poems."

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

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

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

"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."

"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."

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

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