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  • #1
    André Breton
    “Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.”
    Andre Breton, Nadja

  • #2
    William Faulkner
    “Caddy smelled like trees.”
    William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

  • #3
    Seneca
    “I will storm the gods, and shake the universe.”
    Seneca, Medea
    tags: plays

  • #4
    Vladimir Nabokov
    “It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.”
    Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

  • #5
    Vladislav Petković DIS
    “Nema smisla remetiti besmislenost u svom toku.”
    Vladislav Petković Dis

  • #6
    William Faulkner
    “She loved him not only in spite of but because he himself was incapable of love.”
    William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

  • #7
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.”
    Rumi

  • #8
    Neil Gaiman
    “You hurt. It's okay. I hurt too. Hold my hand.”
    Neil Gaiman, The Sandman: Endless Nights

  • #9
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.”
    Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

  • #10
    Sappho
    “Come to me now and loosen me
    from blunt agony. Labor
    and fill my heart with fire. Stand by me
    and be my ally.”
    Sappho, The Complete Poems of Sappho

  • #11
    Julian Barnes
    “Jedan drugi prijatelj je umro, iznenada, katastrofalno, pored pokretne trake za prtljag na nekom stranom aerodromu. Njegova žena je otišla po kolica, kada se vratila, gomila ljudi je bila okupljena oko nečega. Možda se otvorio i prosuo neki kofer. Ali ne, otvorio se i prosuo njen muž, i već je bio mrtav. Godinu ili dve kasnije, kada je moja žena umrla, napisala mi je: „.Stvar je u tome – priroda je tako precizna, boli te tačno onoliko koliko vredi, tako da na neki način, mislim, i uživaš u bolu. Da nije bitno, ne bi bilo bitno..“ To mi je pružilo utehu, i dugo sam držao njeno pismo na radnom stolu; premda sam sumnjao da ću ikada početi da uživam u bolu. Ali svakako, tada sam bio tek na početku.
    Već sam znao da će valjati samo stare reči: smrt, žalost, ucveljenost, tuga, slomljeno srce. Ništa moderno uvijeno ili medicinski. Žalost je ljudsko, a ne medicinsko stanje, i iako postoje pilule koje nam pomažu da zaboravimo na nju – i na sve ostalo – ne postoje pilule koje je mogu izlečiti. Ožalošćeni nisu depresivni, samo propisno, prikladno, matematički („boli tačno onoliko koliko vredi“) tužni. Jedan eufemistični glagol koga sam se naročito gnušao bio je „otići“. „Moje saučešće što vam je žena otišla“ („otišla da piški“?, „otišla po nešto“?). Ne moraš drugima naturati reč „umreti“, čak i ako je sam uvek koristiš. Postoji nekakva sredina. Na jednom prijemu, na koji bismo obično došli zajedno, jedan poznanik mi je prišao i rekao, prosto: „Neko ti nedostaje.“ To mi je delovalo tačno, u oba smisla. (NIVOI ŽIVOTA)”
    Julian Barnes
    tags: smrt

  • #12
    Yevgeny Zamyatin
    “There is no final one; revolutions are infinite.”
    Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

  • #13
    Yevgeny Zamyatin
    “You're in a bad way! Apparently, you have developed a soul.”
    Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

  • #14
    James Joyce
    “Može se umreti i u sunčan dan.”
    James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

  • #15
    Nikos Kazantzakis
    “I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.”
    Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek

  • #16
    Elena Ferrante
    “A child, yes, is a vortex of anxieties.”
    Elena Ferrante, The Lost Daughter

  • #17
    J.D. Salinger
    “I’m just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else’s. I’m sick of everybody that wants to get somewhere, do something distinguished and all, be somebody interesting. It’s disgusting.”
    J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

  • #18
    J.D. Salinger
    “I love you to pieces, distraction, etc.”
    J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

  • #19
    Sylvia Plath
    “Wear your heart on your skin in this life.”
    Sylvia Plath, Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: Short Stories, Prose and Diary Excerpts

  • #20
    Gabriel Bá
    “It doesn't matter where you're from - or how you feel... There's always peace in a strong cup of coffee.”
    Gabriel Bá, Daytripper

  • #21
    Grant Morrison
    “You're much stronger than you think you are. Trust me.”
    Grant Morrison, All-Star Superman

  • #22
    Emily R. Austin
    “Whenever someone does something nice for me, I feel intensely aware of how strange and sad it is to know someone.”
    Emily R. Austin, Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead

  • #23
    Vladimir Nabokov
    “I am sentimental,’ she said. ‘I could dissect a koala but not its baby. I like the words damozel, eglantine, elegant. I love when you kiss my elongated white hand.”
    Vladimir Nabokov, Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle

  • #24
    Jacques Derrida
    “Surviving - that is the other name of a mourning whose possibility is never to be awaited.”
    Jacques Derrida, The Politics of Friendship

  • #25
    Michael Ende
    “Time is life itself, and life resides in the human heart.”
    Michael Ende, Momo

  • #26
    Ocean Vuong
    “I miss you more than I remember you.”
    Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

  • #27
    Julian Barnes
    “You put together two things that have not been put together before. And the world is changed. People may not notice at the time, but that doesn’t matter. The world has been changed nonetheless.”
    Julian Barnes, Levels of Life

  • #28
    David  Lynch
    “Through the darkness of future past, the magician longs to see, one chance out between two worlds, fire walk with me!”
    David Lynch

  • #29
    Virginia Woolf
    “I am rooted, but I flow. All gold, flowing that way.”
    Virginia Woolf, The Waves

  • #30
    James Joyce
    “The past is consumed in the present and the present is living only because it brings forth the future.

    A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man.”
    James Joyce



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