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“Živeli normalni poljupci, na čelu sa poljupcem u čelo!”
― Momo Kapor

“One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.”
― Sigmund Freud

“Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.”
― Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents

“Noću,
kad gledaš u nebo,
i ti namigni meni.
Neka to bude tajna.
Uprkos danima sivim
kad vidiš neku kometu
da nebo zarumeni,
upamti: to ja još uvek
šašav letim, i živim.”
― Miroslav Antić, Besmrtna pesma

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“you must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame;
how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“I do my thing and you do your thing.
I am not in this world to live up to your expectations,
And you are not in this world to live up to mine.
You are you, and I am I, and if by chance we find each other, it's beautiful.
If not, it can't be helped.”
― Fritz Perls

“You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”
― Oscar Wilde

“I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

“Live when you live! Death loses its terror if one dies when one has consummated one's life! If one does not live in the right time, then one can never die at the right time.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, When Nietzsche Wept

“Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you'll always find despair.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, When Nietzsche Wept

“It is naively assumed that the fact that the majority of people share certain ideas and feelings proves the validity of these ideas and feelings. Nothing could be further from the truth. Consensual validation as such has no bearing on reason or mental health.”
― Erich Fromm

“...the more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety. The more you fail to experience your life fully, the more you will fear death.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death

“Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel!”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
― Oscar Wilde