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  • #1
    Oscar Wilde
    “There is nothing sane about the worship of beauty. It is too splendid to be sane. Those of whose lives it forms the dominant note will always seem to the world to be pure visionaries.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Critic As Artist: With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything

  • #2
    Oscar Wilde
    “Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #3
    Oscar Wilde
    “Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #4
    Oscar Wilde
    “For he to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives. To realise the nineteenth century, one must realise every century that has preceded it and that has contributed to its making. To know anything about oneself one must know all about others.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Critic As Artist: With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything

  • #5
    Oscar Wilde
    “If they know nothing of death, it is because they know little of life, for the secrets of life and death belong to those, and those only, whom the sequence of time affects, and who possess not merely the present but the future, and can rise or fall from a past of glory or of shame. Movement, that problem of the visible arts, can be truly realised by Literature alone. It is Literature that shows us the body in its swiftness and the soul in its unrest.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Critic As Artist: With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything

  • #6
    Ivo Andrić
    “~beautiful soul weeps deep~”
    Ivo Andric

  • #7
    Omar Khayyám
    “Wake! For the Sun, who scatter'd into flight
    The Stars before him from the Field of Night,
    Drives Night along with them from Heav'n,
    and strikes
    The Sultan's Turret with a Shaft of Light”
    Omar Khayyám, The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

  • #8
    Omar Khayyám
    “To wisely live your life, you don't need to know much
    Just remember two main rules for the beginning:
    You better starve, than eat whatever
    And better be alone, than with whoever.”
    Omar Khayyám, Rubaiyat

  • #9
    Omar Khayyám
    “Oh threats of Hell and Hopes of Paradise!
    One thing at least is certain - This Life flies;
    One thing is certain and the rest is Lies -
    The Flower that once has blown forever dies.”
    Omar Khayyam, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

  • #10
    Omar Khayyám
    “I sent my Soul through the Invisible,
    Some letter of that After-life to spell:
    And by and by my Soul return'd to me,
    And answer'd: 'I Myself am Heav'n and Hell”
    Omar Khayyam

  • #11
    Omar Khayyám
    “I value the lover's
    sighs of happiness and I despise the hypocrite
    mumbling his prayers.”
    Omar Khayyám, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

  • #12
    Edward FitzGerald
    “Heav'n but the Vision of fulfill'd Desire,
    And Hell the Shadow from a Soul on fire,
    Cast on the Darkness into which Ourselves,
    So late emerged from, shall so soon expire.”
    Edward FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

  • #13
    Omar Khayyám
    “Oh, threats of Hell and Hopes of Paradise!
    One thing at least is certain — This Life flies;
    One thing is certain and the rest is Lies;
    The Flower that once has blown for ever dies.

    Strange, is it not? that of the myriads who
    Before us pass'd the door of Darkness through,
    Not one returns to tell us of the Road,
    Which to discover we must travel too.

    The Revelations of Devout and Learn'd
    Who rose before us, and as Prophets burn'd,
    Are all but Stories, which, awoke from Sleep,
    They told their comrades, and to Sleep return'd.”
    Omar Khayyám, رباعيات خيام

  • #14
    Omar Khayyám
    “Of threats of Hell and Hopes of Paradise! One thing at least is certain—This Life flies; One thing is certain and the rest is Lies; The Flower that once has blown for ever dies.”
    Omar Khayyám, The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

  • #15
    Federico García Lorca
    “Zeleno, volim te, zeleno.
    Zelen vetar, zelene grane.
    Brod na moru
    i konj u planini.
    Opasana senkom
    ona sanja na verandi,
    zelene puti, kose zelene,
    sa očima od hladnog srebra.
    Zeleno, volim te, zeleno!
    Pod lunom Cigankom
    stvari pilje u nju
    a ona ih ne vidi.

    Zeleno, volim te, zeleno!
    Velike zvezde od inja
    dolaze sa ribom senke
    što otvara put zori.
    Smokva trlja vetar
    korom svojih grana,
    a breg, mačak lupež,
    ježi svoje ljute agave.
    Ali ko će doći? I odakle?
    Ona čeka na balkonu,
    zelene puti, kose zelene,
    sanjajuci gorko more.

    -Kume, daću ti
    konja za kuću,
    sedlo za njeno ogledalo,
    nož za njen ogrtač.
    Kume, dolazim krvareći
    iz Kabrinih klanaca.
    -Kad bih mogao, mladiću,
    lako bi se nagodili.
    Ali ja više nisam ja
    niti je moj dom više moj.

    Kume, hoću da umrem
    pristojno u svojoj postelji
    od čelika i, ako je moguce,

    sa holandskim čaršavima...
    Zar ne vidiš moju ranu
    od grudi do grla?

    -Trista crnih ruža
    pokrivaju tvoj beli grudnjak.
    Krv ti vri i miriše
    oko pojasa.
    Ali ja više nisam ja
    niti je moj dom više moj.

    -Pusti me bar
    na visoke verande,
    pusti me da se popnem! Pusti me
    na zelene verande.
    Verandice mesečeve,
    gde kaplje voda.

    Već se penju dva kuma
    na visoke verande.
    Ostavljajući trag krvi.
    Ostavljajući trag suza.
    Drhtali su krovovi,
    fenjerčići od lima.
    Hiljadu staklenih defova
    ranjavalo je zoru.

    Zeleno, volim te, zeleno!
    Zelen vetar, zelene grane.
    Dva kuma su se popela.
    Širok vetar ostavljao je
    u ustima čudan ukus
    žuči, mentola i bosiljka.

    -Kume, gde je, reci mi,
    gde je tvoje gorko devojče?
    -Koliko puta te je čekala
    sveža lica, crne kose,
    na toj zelenoj verandi.
    Nad ogledalom bunara
    Ciganka se njiha.
    Zelene puti, kose zelene,

    sa očima od hladnog srebra.
    Mesečev stalaktit od leda
    drži je nad vodom.
    Noć je postala intimna
    kao mali trg.

    Pijani su žandari
    lupali na vrata.
    Zeleno, volim te, zeleno!
    Zelene vetar, zelene grane.
    Brod na moru
    i konj u planini.

    - ROMANSA MESECARKA
    Frederico Garcia Lorca

  • #16
    George R.R. Martin
    “Fear cuts deeper than swords.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

  • #17
    George R.R. Martin
    “Bran thought about it. 'Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?'
    'That is the only time a man can be brave,' his father told him.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

  • #18
    Charles Bukowski
    “I
    think that the
    world should be full of cats and full of rain, that's all, just
    cats and
    rain, rain and cats, very nice, good
    night.”
    Charles Bukowski, Betting on the Muse: Poems & Stories

  • #19
    George R.R. Martin
    “That boy had wanted to be Ser Arthur Dayne, but someplace along the way he had become the Smiling Knight instead.”
    George R.R. Martin

  • #20
    George R.R. Martin
    “And I know that a king protects his people, or he is no king at all.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

  • #21
    George R.R. Martin
    “Most have been forgotten. Most deserve to be forgotten. The heroes will always be remembered. The best. The best and the worst. And a few who were a bit of both.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Feast for Crows

  • #22
    George R.R. Martin
    “All Knights must bleed. Blood is the seal of our devotion.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Feast for Crows

  • #23
    Steven Pressfield
    “Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, that here obedient to their laws we lie.”
    Steven Pressfield, Gates of Fire

  • #24
    Roger A. Caras
    “In Egypt: Under no conditions, under threat of death could anyone kill a cat. People were exceuted for even killing a cat accidentally. And when a cat died, the whole family, and probably their closest friends, went into mourning, the measure of their personal loss signalled by their shaving off their eyebrows.”
    Roger A. Caras, A Celebration of Cats

  • #25
    William Shakespeare
    “When I bestride him, I soar, I am a hawk: he trots the air; the earth sings when he touches it; the basest horn of his hoof is more musical than the pipe of Hermes. ”
    William Shakespeare, Henry V

  • #26
    Ray Bradbury
    “Why is it," he said, one time, at the subway entrance, "I feel I've known you so many years?"
    "Because I like you," she said, "and I don't want anything from you.”
    Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

  • #27
    William Shakespeare
    “Words are easy, like the wind; faithful friends are hard to find.”
    William Shakespeare, The Passionate Pilgrim

  • #28
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “I am looking for friends. What does that mean -- tame?"

    "It is an act too often neglected," said the fox. "It means to establish ties."

    "To establish ties?"

    "Just that," said the fox. "To me, you are still nothing more than a little boy who is just like a hundred thousand other little boys. And I have no need of you. And you, on your part, have no need of me. To you I am nothing more than a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world....”
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

  • #29
    Robert Frost
    “The rain to the wind said,
    You push and I'll pelt.'
    They so smote the garden bed
    That the flowers actually knelt,
    And lay lodged--though not dead.
    I know how the flowers felt.”
    Robert Frost

  • #30
    Tacitus
    “Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure”
    Tacitus



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