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Quotes by Serbian Authors
"To transform a grimace into a sound sounds impossible, yet it is possible to transform a vision into music, to go outside an enslaved personality, to become impersonal by transforming into sand, into water, into light."
"Strangers are endearing because you don't know them yet."
"Love is almost never simple."
"Omnipotence and omniscience are the end of power and knowledge."
"Absolute equals nothingness."
"Knowing how to dream is more important than the story, because the story tells itself."
"We hear only our own voices, still echoes returning to our emptiness."
"The length of novels, poems and stories, is measured by the number of missing words; a thousand pages become one, one becomes a thousand."
"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."
"They are both spectacular, Life and death."
"Everything seems impossible And everything seems possible."
"Deceit dispels the boredom of the Absolute."
"They blossomed, they did not talk about blossoming."
"The farther away, the closer the home becomes."
"We measure everything by ourselves with almost a necessary conceit."
"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."
"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."
"Long ago an uncalled rain fell and a called-upon God stayed equally distant."
"We traveled long and forgot why poetry was invented."
"Stars are only the rain of the Absolute."
"Beyond all vanities, fights, and desires, omnipotent silence lies."
"To risk life to save a smile on a face of a woman or a child is the secret of chivalry."
"Perfection seems sterile; it is final, no mystery in it; it's a product of an assembly line."
"If an ancient man saw planes two thousand years ago He would've thought they were birds Or angels from another world Or messengers from other planets."
"If you are only what you are, You at least have a chance Not to outsmart, But be on a par with yourself And that is worth trying."
"No reason for a feverish rush For we will all arrive in the same place At the right time. Justice will be served. There will be no better or worse, No big and small, no rewards, no punishment, No guilt, no judges, no hierarchies; Only silent equality."
"When everything hurries everywhere, nothing goes anywhere."
"Quixote shines from Lorca and Picasso, From DalA and El Greco, From the gloomy 'View of Toledo.' He was born before Cervantes."
"Marquez was not born in Colombia.He was born in Macondo, And his Macondo is his La Mancha."
"Nothing is part of everything."
"Burning the witch Giordano Bruno is one more wound inflicted on Christ's body."
"Infinity is the end. End without infinity is but a new beginning."
"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."
"Many writers were better before they became famous."
"I imagined I was God for a millisecond And became speechless for a long time."
"To the knights of faith nobody believes."
"Every thought about death takes a moment of life away."
"Vandals listen only when others are stronger.If vandals are equal or strongerTheir word is the last word."
"When the star dies, Its eye closes; tired of watching, It flies back to its first bright dream."
"You not only are hunted by others, you unknowingly hunt yourself."
"A hidden spark of the dream sleeps In the forest and waits In the celestial spheres of the brain."
"A versifier passes through the sound, sounds go through a poet."
"Don Quixote is not an imaginary person, he is as real as Alexander the Great."
"They forget that love is not a science but an inherent state of mind; they forget that sex is practiced by animals without textbooks and that it is not such a secret that requires a complete science, courses and special training. And so impotent, with artificial stars on the ceilings of their rooms, they become the main teachers on the way to the stars."
"There can be no forced inspiration."
"Oblivion cures the old wounds."
"Don't pay attention to those who offer too much."
"We don't know anything about silent sages, buried knowledge, the eye of the mute poet, serene seers, yet how many talkative destroyers, prophets and ideologues, teachers and beautifiers there are on the other side."
"In a real poem a sound does not swallow a letter, but a letter swallows a sound."
"I fly through memory to find a newborn love."
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