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“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
― Cicero

“Alice: How long is forever?
White Rabbit: Sometimes, just one second.”
― Lewis Carroll

“Čovek koji manje živi, a više misli, postaje sve hladniji i, kao neki kristal, tvrđi. Postaje irealan. Propušta svetlost i ona se u njemu lomi kao u nekoj prizmi.

A poneki pesnik od toga poludi.”
― Miloš Crnjanski, Kod Hiperborejaca I

“God made food; the devil the cooks.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

“manuscripts don't burn" - "(рукописи не горят)”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

“Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”
― Voltaire

“To do nothing is the way to be nothing.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne

“One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.”
― Charles Baudelaire, Paris Spleen

“I have provided a possible explanation for Antiochus's insane foolhardiness when left in command of the Athenian Fleet, because Thucidides's bald account is so unbelievable (unless one assumes that both Antiochus and Alkibiades were mentally defective) that any explanation seems more likely than none.
Alkibiades himself is an enigma. Even allowing that no man is all black and all white, few men can ever have been more wildly and magnificently piebald. Like another strange and contradictory character Sir Walter Raleigh, he casts a glamour that comes clean down the centuries, a dazzle of personal magnetism that makes it hard to see the man behind it. I have tried to see. I have tried to fit the pieces into a coherent whole; I don't know whether I have been successful or not; but I do not think that I have anywhere falsified the portrait.”
― Rosemary Sutcliff, The Flowers of Adonis

“Poručnik Vaculić, star dvadeset i tri godine, govorio je: "Naš život stvarno je prošao najbolje što je mogao!”
― Bora Ćosić, Priče o zanatima / Uloga moje porodice u svetskoj revoluciji

“There is a rumour going around that I have found God. I think this is unlikely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys, and there is empirical evidence that they exist.”
― Terry Pratchett

“What is the quality you most like in a man?
The ability to return books.”
― David Bowie

“I once had to say this on a show many years ago, and I truly believe it: Loneliness is a choice. I like to be alone; I’m more comfortable alone. But I do recognize that I take it too far sometimes and so I try to force myself to keep up with being sociable. I just am a bit of a lone ranger; I always have been. But I don’t believe that necessarily has to translate to being lonely. You can be lonely in a crowd of a thousand people. I can be in a hotel room on my own and not feel lonely. It all comes down to how comfortable you are with who you are in the silence.”
― Gillian Anderson

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.”
― Spinoza

“Колајна

Ступај са својим мраком
кроз пропаст хоризонта;
са тајном и облаком
од фронта, па до фронта.

Ступај са својом тмушом
кроз поноћ цијеле земље;
пјевај са својом душом
где год се спава и дремље.


Доста је лажи ! Што ми треба
то није много, добри Боже,
и толико се дати може:
тек љубав жене, видик неба

И ништа друго. Ништа веће.
Да је у тебе добре воље,
мени би било чисто боље
и - чисто раван пут до среће.”
― Tin Ujević, Kolajna

“But I don’t want to go among mad people," Alice remarked.
"Oh, you can’t help that," said the Cat: "we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad."
"How do you know I’m mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn’t have come here.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

“Овде све супруге, заиста је употребила реч супруге, морају да рачунају с тим да ће им мужеви упасти у млин за папир или да ће им млин за папир бар одсећи једну руку или неколико прстију, рече, у ствари, сваки дан се догађа да млин за папир повреди неког од њих и у крају живе само мушкарци које је млин за папир осакатио. Деведесет процената свих мушкараца раде овде у фабрици папира, рече. С децом ове немају других планова, него да их пошаљу у фабрику папира, рече, већ генерацијама траје исти механизам, помислих. А ако фабрика пропадне, рече, онда ће сви остати на цедилу.”
― Thomas Bernhard, The Loser

“Losers, like autodidacts, always know much more than winners. If you want to win, you need to know just one thing and not to waste your time on anything else: the pleasures of erudition are reserved for losers. The more a person knows, the more things have gone wrong.”
― Umberto Eco, Numero Zero: An Acclaimed Political Thriller Unraveling Mussolini's Conspiracy, Media Hoaxes, and Italian History

“I have a lot of work to do today;
I need to slaughter memory,
Turn my living soul to stone
Then teach myself to live again.”
― Anna Akhmatova, The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

“Postojanje i svet izgledaju opravdani jedino kao estetski fenomen: u kom smislu nas upravo tragički mit treba da ubedi kako su čak i rugoba i nesklad umetnička igra koju volja, u večitom preobilju svoje naslade, igra sa samom sobom.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy

“Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.”
― Stephen Fry

“In Norway they’re watching a TV show that’s just twelve hours of nonstop knitting: “from sheep to sweater.” To promote the notion of “Slow TV.”
― Hendrik Groen, The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 83¼ Years Old