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“Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.”
― J. D. Salinger

“X

Блажен, кто смолоду был молод,
Блажен, кто вовремя созрел,
Кто постепенно жизни холод
С летами вытерпеть умел;
Кто странным снам не предавался,
Кто черни светской не чуждался,
Кто в двадцать лет был франт иль хват,
А в тридцать выгодно женат;
Кто в пятьдесят освободился
От частных и других долгов,
Кто славы, денег и чинов
Спокойно в очередь добился,
О ком твердили целый век:
N. N. прекрасный человек.

XI

Но грустно думать, что напрасно
Была нам молодость дана,
Что изменяли ей всечасно,
Что обманула нас она;
Что наши лучшие желанья,
Что наши свежие мечтанья
Истлели быстрой чередой,
Как листья осенью гнилой.
Несносно видеть пред собою
Одних обедов длинный ряд,
Глядеть на жизнь, как на обряд,
И вслед за чинною толпою
Идти, не разделяя с ней
Ни общих мнений, ни страстей.”
― Alexander Pushkin, Eugene Onegin

“I don't know what good it is to know so much and be smart as whips and all if it doesn't make you happy.”
― J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

“I would like you to clear up for me just what the hell your motives are for saying it.' He hesitated, but not long enough to give Franny a chance to cut in on him. 'As a matter of simple logic, there's no difference at all, that I can see, between the man who's greedy for material treasure—or even intellectual treasure—and the man who's greedy for spiritual treasure. As you say, treasure's treasure, God damn it, and it seems to me that ninety per cent of all the world-hating saints in history were just as acquisitive and unattractive, basically, as the rest of us are.”
― J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

“Toliko je u životu bilo stvari kojih smo se bojali. A nije trebalo. Trebalo je živeti”
― Ivo Andrić

“Без муке се пјесна не испоја,
без муке се саблја не сакова!
јунаштво је цар зла свакојега
а и пиће најслађе душевно,
којијем се пјане поколјенја.
Благо томе ко довијек живи,
имао се рашта и родити:
вјежна зублја вјечне помрчине
нит'догори, нити свјетлост губи.”
― Petar II Petrović Njegoš, Gorski vijenac

“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.

And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.”
― Albert Camus

“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
― Albert Camus

“The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.”
― Ayn Rand

“It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“I don't think we did go blind, I think we are blind, Blind but seeing, Blind people who can see, but do not see.”
― José Saramago, Blindness

“The difficult thing isn't living with other people, it's understanding them.”
― José Saramago, Blindness

“I am free and that is why I am lost.”
― Franz Kafka

“The key thing is to be "Conservative in principle but Liberal in sympathy".”
― Boris Johnson, The Churchill Factor: How One Man Made History

“Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening.”
― Greta Garbo

“Art is to console those who are broken by life.”
― Vincent van Gogh