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“Trebalo bi ubijati prošlost sa svakim danom što se ugasi. Izbrisati je da ne postoji, da ne boli. Lakše bi se podnosio dan što traje, ne bi se merio onim što više ne postoji. Ovako se mešaju utvare i život, pa nema ni čistog sećanja, ni čistog života.”
― Meša Selimović, Death and the Dervish

“Ljudi preziru sve one koji ne uspiju, a mrze one koji se uspnu iznad njih; Navikni se na prezir ako želis mir, ili na mržnju ako pristaneš na borbu...”
― Meša Selimović, Death and the Dervish

“And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes.”
― James Joyce

“Love loves to love love.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead

“Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“It's like male geeks don't know how to deal with real live women, so they just assume it's a user interface problem. Not their fault. They'll just wait for the next version to come out- something more "user friendly.”
― Douglas Coupland, Microserfs

“I am now daniel@oop.com.
"@" could become the "Mc" or "Mac" of the next millennium.”
― Douglas Coupland

“Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
― William Faulkner

“Свак је рођен да по једном умре,
част и брука живе довијека!”
― Petar II Petrović Njegoš, Lažni car Šćepan Mali

“Pop Andrija (240)

Al' se caru ne valja strašiti.
Pod krunama ima strašljivicah,
u prnjama ima vitezovah.
On sad druge ne ima krivice
nako što je srca plašljivoga,
a to nije njegova krivica,
nego ga je bog takvoga dao.”
― Petar II Petrović Njegoš, Lažni car Šćepan Mali

“Шћепан (434, Дјејствије прво)

Средства лјуде чине великима;
и Скендербег не би онај био
да га Запад није потпирао.”
― Petar II Petrović Njegoš

“You cannot lose what you never had.”
― Isaac Walton

“No man can lose what he never had.”
― Izaak Walton, The Complete Angler or The Contemplative Man's Recreation, Vol 1