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“Zar nas tek velika nesreća zaista vraća sebi? (...) Ima nečega istinski velikog, za um i dušu velikog, u svakoj pravoj nesreći. Samo u njoj postoji jedna životna istina koje se više ne bi lišio. Nikad.”
― Dobrica Ćosić, Vreme smrti, knjiga III

“Spring is the time of year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“Peace begins with a smile..”
― Mother Teresa

“The meaning of life is that it stops.”
― Franz Kafka

“Out of my thoughts! You are part of my existence, part of myself. You have been in every line I have ever read, since I first came here, the rough common boy whose poor heart you wounded even then. You have been in every prospect I have ever seen since – on the river, on the sails of the ships, on the marshes, in the clouds, in the light, in the darkness, in the wind, in the woods, in the sea, in the streets. You have been the embodiment of every graceful fancy that my mind has ever become acquainted with. The stones of which the strongest London buildings are made, are not more real, or more impossible to displace with your hands, than your presence and influence have been to me, there and everywhere, and will be. Estella, to the last hour of my life, you cannot choose but remain part of my character, part of the little good in me, part of the evil. But, in this separation I associate you only with the good, and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you must have done me far more good than harm, let me feel now what sharp distress I may. O God bless you, God forgive you!”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“Ask no questions, and you'll be told no lies.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“it is a principle of his that no man who was not a true gentleman at heart, ever was, since the world began, a true gentleman in manner. He says, no varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“Ima smisla roditi se da bi se doživeo jedan...razgovor.”
― Dobrica Ćosić, Vreme smrti, knjiga I

“Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“In this country people don't respect the morning. An alarm clock violently wakes them up, shatters their sleep like the blow of an ax, and they immediately surrender themselves to deadly haste. Can you tell me what kind of day can follow a beginning of such violence? What happens to people whose alarm clock daily gives them a small electric shock? Each day they become more used to violence and less used to pleasure. Believe me, it is the mornings that determine a man's character.”
― Milan Kundera, Farewell Waltz

“I am not in favor of imposing happiness on people. Everyone has a right to his bad wine, to his stupidity, and to his dirty fingernails.”
― Milan Kundera, Farewell Waltz

“Pravda, u stvari, i ne treba da nas previše zanima. Pravda nije ljudska stvar. Postoji pravda slijepih i krutih zakona, a osim nje možda i neka viša pravda, ali tu ja ne razumijem. Uvijek mi se činilo da na ovom svijetu živim izvan pravde. Pravda me se ne tiče. Pravda je nešto izvan mene i iznad mene. Kako god se uzme, nešto neljudsko. Nikad neću surađivati s tom odvratnom silom.”
― Milan Kundera, Farewell Waltz

“Samo nam ljudsko biće može podariti potpunu iluziju sigurnosti. Samo glas, pogled i dodir ruke jednog čoveka deluju kao utešna poruka iz svemira u kome smo mi tako sićušni. Ovaj čovek može da nam bude prijatelj, lekar, ređe kakav rođak, ali bez izuzetka to je uvek osoba koja nas voli. Strasna ljubav je kao uveličavajuće staklo, koje prikazuje vrednosti u nama za koje nismo ni slutili. Razbije li se uveličavajuće staklo, oplakaćemo gubitak optičke iluzije o sebi.”
― Lajos Zilahy, The Angry Angel

“Take the pencil and write under my name, 'I forgive her.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“As I grow older, much older, I will experience many things, and I will hit rock bottom again and again. Again and again I will suffer; again and again I will get back on my feet. I will not be defeated. I won't let my spirit be destroyed.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Kitchen

“I told you once before that there were two times for making big money, one in the up-building of a country and the other in its destruction. Slow money on the up-building, fast money in the crack-up. Remember my words. Perhaps they may be of use to you some day. (Rhett Butler)”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

“She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.”
― Henry James

“Burdens are for shoulders strong enough to carry them.”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

“Рекло би се да је Беснило изашло на крај с неједнакошћу међу људима, с којом се Разум узалуд борио хиљадама година. Да је укинуло традиционалне поделе на беле и обојене, мушкарце и жене, богате и сиромашне, моћне и слабе, паметне и глупе и заменило их универзалном разликом између здравих и болесних. (Стварне поделе нема. Сви болесни су потенцијално мртви, сви здрави потенцијално болесни. Сви смо дакле , реално мртви. Свет је коначно јединствен.)”
― Borislav Pekić, Besnilo