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Quotes by Serbian Authors

"Darkness does not age, nothing is always nothing."

"The world is a fairy tale, we are its guardians."

"The eyesight for an eagle is what thought is to a man."

"Infinity is the end. End without infinity is but a new beginning."

"When there is noise and crowds, there is trouble; When everything is silent and perfect, There is just perfection and nothing To fill the air."

"The world is a navy in an empty ocean."

"A big desire is not enough to meet the expectations of lost dreams."

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

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

"We need knew knights, but without swords."

"Say No! Accept the burdens of revenge."

"To understand possible means to understand impossible."

"How many unuttered words died in the heads of those for whom a word was too expensive."

"Without pleasure there is no sight or measure."

"Omnipotence and omniscience are the end of power and knowledge."

"He will understand when it is too late that it is easier to love."

"Names sound nice because no one peeks behind the cover to see the sad face of a poem crying for meaning, while the name of the creator proudly smiles from the title."

"He thought others were small, that was his greatness."

"There is something perfect to be found in the imperfect: the law keeps balance through the juxtaposition of beauty, which gains perfection through nurtured imperfection."

"Is it possible to write a poem or are these words just screams of outlaws exiled to the desert?"

"Perfection seems sterile; it is final, no mystery in it; it's a product of an assembly line."

"Quixote shines from Lorca and Picasso, From DalA and El Greco, From the gloomy 'View of Toledo.' He was born before Cervantes."

"In every sound, the hidden silence sleeps."

"Nothing is part of everything."

"Through memory to knowledge on the way to stars that are stepping down to the stuffy rooms of modern bureaucrats, illuminating their ceilings, their horizons where everything is easily resolved by the piles of paper and recipes for how to live, create, run, eat, breathe, learn how to love, how to make love, how to sleep, how to dream, how happiness is achieved under the artificial stars of the new sky that emerged from the bureaucratic rooms of aspiring and impotent minds, unable to love, even though they had all their life to learn what they preach."

"Since nothing is absolute There is no absolute silence, Only an appearance Of temporary peace."

"Even if you are alone you wage war with yourself."

"Nothing reminds us of an awakening more than rain."

"When magic through nerves and reason passes, Imagination, force, and passion will thunder. The portrait of the world is changed."

"It is futile to spend time telling stories about the fleetness of each day."

"The world cannot be translated, It can only be dreamed of and touched."

"The purpose of life is life."

"In an endless silence even screams sound silent."

"We don't know who was tricked by whom. Did the writer deceive the word, or did the word deceive the writer?"

"The world contained in a seed, Determined by its program."

"All people are enslaved by something."

"Tell me something only you know and make a new friend."

"A breeze, a forgotten summer, a smile, all can fit into a storefront window."

"Although personal calling I sense,Who am I? even if I am, I don't know."

"Teaching others, he corrected himself."

"To leave out beautiful sunsets is the secret of good taste."

"It is not important what happens where; Where we fall or rise, What we conquer or lose, How big or small we are."

"Either you will be you or you will not be at all."

"Almost as a rule, political dissidents were writers."

"He had an answer to almost everything and he retired at an early age."

"Senses empower limitations, senses expand vision within borders, senses promote understanding through pleasure."

"Long ago an uncalled rain fell and a called-upon God stayed equally distant."

"The universe is God's son."

"When everything hurries everywhere, nothing goes anywhere."
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