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Quotes by Serbian Authors
"We built tall buildings, but we have not become any taller."
"It's not easy to write a poem about a poem."
"A versifier arranges sounds, a poet arranges meaning in the sounds."
"There is always the question why And there is always life, Which doesn't need an answer."
"A big desire is not enough to meet the expectations of lost dreams."
"Wherever there is somebody else, a war is not far away."
"Through everything I have passed but nowhere I have been."
"We don't know who was tricked by whom. Did the writer deceive the word, or did the word deceive the writer?"
"In the lie of truth lies the truth."
"The world contained in a seed, Determined by its program."
"Even great men bow before the Sun, it melts hubris into humility."
"My feelings are too loud for words and too shy for the world."
"He tries to find the exit from himself but there is no door."
"How many unuttered words died in the heads of those for whom a word was too expensive."
"Absolute equals nothingness."
"The length of novels, poems and stories, is measured by the number of missing words; a thousand pages become one, one becomes a thousand."
"Darkness does not age, nothing is always nothing."
"If you could have walked on the planet before humans lived here, maybe the Ivory Coast would have seemed more beautiful than La CA te d'Azur."
"Everybody talks, but there is no conversation."
"For a game, you don't need a teacher."
"Nothing is part of everything."
"Long ago we conquered our passions looking at ourselves in the mirror of eternity."
"Vandals listen only when others are stronger.If vandals are equal or strongerTheir word is the last word."
"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."
"A versifier passes through the sound, sounds go through a poet."
"A poem that is itself a name does not yearn for the name of its creator, but shines from its name alone."
"What we call life is only talk of nature."
"Disease often comes with a smiling face."
"I fly through memory to find a newborn love."
"It is vain futility to analyze the algebra of time."
"It is futile to spend time telling stories about the fleetness of each day."
"History will be erased in the universal purgatory."
"With me: one minus one = one, with you: it's zero. Here lies the only difference."
"Knighthood lies above eternity; it doesn't live off fame, but rather deeds."
"They will smile, as they always do when they plan a major attack late in the night."
"To not say all that can be said is the secret of discipline and economy."
"Our desire to say more grows bigger and what to say about it, except that saying is not always about saying, growing is not always about growing."
"Nobility is not only in forgiveness."
"Entering a cell, penetrating deep as a flying saucer to find a new galaxy would be an honorable task for a new scientist interested more in the inner state of the soul than in outer space."
"The world of numbers and words is odd. A number is the only word that doesn't lie and words can be very deceitful, they create the illusion that a large number hides a great word."
"We love the imperfect shapes in nature and in the works of art, look for an intentional error as a sign of the golden key and sincerity found in true mastery."
"To hide feelings when you are near crying is the secret of dignity."
"Trying too hard to be too good, even when trying to be bad, is too good for the bad, too bad for the good."
"God is busy and has no time for you."
"To write good poems is the secret of brevity."
"Heavenly bodies are nests of invisible birds."
"There are no winners in real games."
"He will understand when it is too late that it is easier to love."
"A word was more valuable to them when they were not sure of its value. Since they became famous, their word has been more expensive but its value is less."
"Beauty is a cheap word, but beauty remains priceless."
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