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Quotes by Serbian Authors

"A word is not filling in the gaps, but the fertilization of silence."

"The deeper thought is, the taller it becomes."

"It is vain futility to analyze the algebra of time."

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

"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."

"With me: one minus one = one, with you: it's zero. Here lies the only difference."

"To hide feelings when you are near crying is the secret of dignity."

"Through everything I have passed but nowhere I have been."

"To write good poems is the secret of brevity."

"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."

"Teaching others, he corrected himself."

"From whichever side I start, I think I am in an old place where others have been before me."

"I am the shore and the ocean, awaiting myself on both sides."

"Without pleasure there is no sight or measure."

"This dwarf still observes the world from his own self-imposed height."

"Heavenly bodies are nests of invisible birds."

"There are no winners in real games."

"Eternity is a glorious word, but eternity is ice."

"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."

"Everything passes through the eyes of top bureaucrats who closely watch to ensure that no intruder can enter their ranks and disrupt the order and arrangement of values in which everything is predetermined and where everyone knows their place, everyone's potential, talent and position in history."

"Beauty is a cheap word, but beauty remains priceless."

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

"Nature is an outcry, unpolished truth; the art-a euphemism-tamed wilderness."

"When he is most powerful, nothing does he become."

"Art is apotheosis; often, the complaint of beauty."

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

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

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

"Instead of imitating me, you simply loiter."
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