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“It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”
― Philip K. Dick, VALIS

“Come to me now and loosen me
from blunt agony. Labor
and fill my heart with fire. Stand by me
and be my ally.”
― Sappho, The Complete Poems of Sappho

“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through.”
― Ira Glass

“U mladosti duhovni saputnici su nam prijatelji i knjige. Ali najveća razlika između prijatelja i knjiga je ta da se prijatelji menjaju, a knjige ne. Knjiga, čak i ako skuplja prašinu na polici ili u nekom uglu sobe, uporno čuva svoj karakter i svoju filozofiju. Prihvatajući je ili odbacujući je, čitajući je ili ne, mi samo možemo da promenimo naš stav prema njoj, i to je sve.”
― Yukio Mishima, The Way of the Samurai

“Seeing him brought in, has, I think, saved me from losing my mind; for that I do not thank him-sanity, after all is only reason applied to human affairs, and when this reason, applied over years, has resulted in disaster, destruction, despair, misery, starvation, and rot, the mind is correct to abandon it. This decision to discard reason, I see now, is not the last but the first reasonable act; and this insanity we are taught to fear consists in nothing but responding naturally and instinctively rather than with the culturally acquired, mannered thing called reason; an insane man talks nonsense because like a bird or a cat he is too sensible to talk sense.”
― Gene Wolfe, The Fifth Head of Cerberus

“2.Један је опет одликован што се после учињеног великог дефицита није убио, по
глупом дотадашњем шаблону, већ је дрско узвикнуо пред судом:
-Ја сам назоре и идеје своје у дело привео, такви су моји погледи на свет, а ви
ми судите. Ево ме! (Ту се лупио у груди, коракнуо један корак напред). Тај је, мислим,
добио орден за грађанску кураж. (И право је!)
Један чича добио је орден што је остарио и што није умро.
Један је одликован што се обогатио за непуно пола године лиферујући држави
лоше жито и још вазда других ствари.
Један богати наследник одликован је што није упропастио очевину и што је
приложио на добротворне цељи пет динара.”
― Radoje Domanović, Stradija

“The fullness of existence, life’s true richness, does not consist solely in health and happiness but in an ever-expanding range of joy and sorrow; and the broader the range, the richer life becomes.”
― Valentin Tomberg