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“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”
― Marcus Aurelius , Meditations

“One man doesn't believe in god at all, while the other believes in him so thoroughly that he prays as he murders men!”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

“Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“Bila je tiha luka, u čiji sam mir ulazio slomljen olujom, ali srećan što se vraćam.”
― Meša Selimović, The Fortress

“If I have left a wound inside you, it is not just your wound but mine as well.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.”
― Franz Kafka, The Trial

“You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“The Russian soul is a dark place.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot

“He simply did not know where he stood, or where to put his hands, his feet, and his whole body”
― Nikolai Gogol, The Cloak

“Whenever I look at the ocean, I always want to talk to people, but when I'm talking to people, I always want to look at the ocean.”
― Haruki Murakami, Hear the Wind Sing

“You say 'I' and you are proud of this word. But greater than this- although you will not believe in it - is your body and its great intelligence, which does not say 'I' but performs 'I'.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“And it was like knocking four quick times on the door of unhappiness.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger

“Finding a zero day is a little like entering God mode in a video game. Once hackers have figured out the commands or written the code to exploit it, they can scamper through the world's computer networks undetected until the day the underlying flaw is discovered. Zero day exploitation is the most direct application of the cliche 'knowledge is power if you know how to use it.”
― Nicole Perlroth, This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race

“One must be a sea, to receive a polluted stream without becoming impure.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“He who climbs upon the highest mountains laughs at all tragedies, real or imaginary.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“Of all that is written I love only what a man has written in his own blood.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None

“He ordered a freeze on CIA operations in Moscow—a total stand-down. The Moscow station was told not to run any agents, not to carry out any operational acts.”
― David E. Hoffman, The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal

“For as long as I can recall, a small scrap of paper has been fastened to our refrigerator door with a proverb from Saint Augustine: “The world is a book, and those who do not travel, read only a page.” With her steadfast support and participation, the world is, once again, a book.”
― David E. Hoffman, The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal

“the Jack-in-the-Box would spring erect, a pop-up that looked, in outline, like the head and torso of the case officer who had just jumped out.”
― David E. Hoffman, The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal

“I nijedno zlo ne može postati dobro, zato što ga prihvata većina.”
― Meša Selimović, The Fortress

“Četrdeset mi je godina, ružno doba: čovjek je još mlad da bi imao želja a već star da ih ostvaruje. Tada se u svakome gase nemiri, da bi postao jak navikom i stečenom sigurnošću u nemoći što dolazi. A ja tek činim što je trebalo učiniti davno, u bujnom cvjetanju tijela, kad su svi bezbrojni putevi dobri, a sve zablude korisne koliko i istine. Šteta što nemam deset godina više pa bi me starost čuvala od pobuna, ili deset godina manje pa bi mi bilo svejedno. Jer trideset godina je mladost, to sad mislim, kad sam se nepovratno udaljio od nje, mladost koja se ničega ne boji, pa ni sebe.”
― Meša Selimović, Death and the Dervish

“Rat je surova ali poštena borba, kao među životinjama. Život u miru je surova borba, ali nepoštena, kao među ljudima. Razlika je ogromna.”
― Meša Selimović, The Fortress

“... ono što se ne može objasniti samome sebi, treba govoriti drugome. Sebe možes obmanuti nekim dijelom slike koji se nametne, teško izrecivim osjećanjem, jer se skriva pred mukom saznavanja i bježi u omaglicu, u opijenost koja ne traži smisao. Drugome je neophodna tačna riječ, zato je i tražiš, osjećaš da je negde u tebi, i loviš je, nju ili njenu sjenku, prepoznaješ je na tuđem licu, u tuđem pogledu, kad počne da shvata.”
― Meša Selimović, The Fortress

“I am a fool with a heart but no brains, and you are a fool with brains but no heart; and we’re both unhappy, and we both suffer.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

“Not long ago I was much amused by imagining—what if the fancy suddenly took me to kill some one, a dozen people at once, or to do some thing awful, something considered the most awful crime in the world—what a predicament my judges would be in, with my having only a fortnight to live, now that corporal punishment and torture is abolished. I should die comfortably in hospital, warm aad snug, with an attentive doctor, and very likely much more snug and comfortable than at home. I wonder that the idea doesn't strike people in my position, if only as a joke.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot

“When your feelings build up and harden and die inside, then you're in big trouble.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Three years after the United States and the Israelis reached across Iran’s borders and destroyed its centrifuges, Iran launched a retaliatory attack, the most destructive cyberattack the world had seen to date. On August 15, 2012, Iranian hackers hit Saudi Aramco, the world’s richest oil company—a company worth more than five Apples on paper—with malware that demolished thirty thousand of its computers, wiped its data, and replaced it all with the image of the burning American flag. All the money in the world had not kept Iranian hackers from getting into Aramco’s systems. Iran’s hackers had waited until the eve of Islam’s holiest night of the year—“The Night of Power,” when Saudis were home celebrating the revelation of the Koran to the Prophet Muhammad, to flip a kill switch and detonate malware that not only destroyed Aramco’s computers, data, and access to email and internet but upended the global market for hard drives. It could have been worse. As investigators from CrowdStrike, McAfee, Aramco, and others pored through the Iranians’ crumbs, they discovered that the hackers had tried to cross the Rubicon between Aramco’s business systems and its production systems. In that sense, they failed.”
― Nicole Perlroth, This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race

“It was a wonderful night, such a night as is only possible when we are young, dear reader.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

“Anything seems possible at night when the rest of the world has gone to sleep.”
― David Almond, My Name Is Mina

“In the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at till you understood them, they couldn't change half way through a sentence like people, so it was easier to spot a lie.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit