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“Ali osjećaj konačnog odlaska je sličan, iako ovaj put svjesniji: opraštanje od ulica ovog grada, otkidanje od nečeg što sam mislio da ima veze samnom, očekivanje nečeg novog, neizvjesnost, želja da sve ovo svrši, da se riješiš kostiju, kože, dlaka na prsima, da te prevelike oči ispadnu iz duplji, želja da zaboraviš očajničku potrebu za ljubavlju, tu prokletu glad za ljubavlju što uništava, ljubavlju koja košta i zahtijeva više nego što tvoja misao može i naslutiti i koja ti na kraju skrši kralježnicu. A i opet, ako nisi spreman za tu i takvu ljubav, ne vrijedi ti ni živjeti.”
― Bekim Sejranović, Nigdje, niotkuda

“Djeca nemaju strah od smrti, to i jest ono što ih čini djecom. Djeca imaju strah od roditelja. Kada strah od roditelja istisne strah od smrti, može se reći da smo odrasli.”
― Bekim Sejranović, Nigdje, niotkuda

“Unending Love

I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times...
In life after life, in age after age, forever.
My spellbound heart has made and remade the necklace of songs,
That you take as a gift, wear round your neck in your many forms,
In life after life, in age after age, forever.

Whenever I hear old chronicles of love, it's age old pain,
It's ancient tale of being apart or together.
As I stare on and on into the past, in the end you emerge,
Clad in the light of a pole-star, piercing the darkness of time.
You become an image of what is remembered forever.

You and I have floated here on the stream that brings from the fount.
At the heart of time, love of one for another.
We have played along side millions of lovers,
Shared in the same shy sweetness of meeting,
the distressful tears of farewell,
Old love but in shapes that renew and renew forever.

Today it is heaped at your feet, it has found its end in you
The love of all man's days both past and forever:
Universal joy, universal sorrow, universal life.
The memories of all loves merging with this one love of ours -
And the songs of every poet past and forever.”
― Rabindranath Tagore, Selected Poems

“Die slowly

He who becomes the slave of habit,
who follows the same routes every day,
who never changes pace,
who does not risk and change the color of his clothes,
who does not speak and does not experience,
dies slowly.

He or she who shuns passion,
who prefers black on white,
dotting ones "it’s" rather than a bundle of emotions, the kind that make your eyes glimmer,
that turn a yawn into a smile,
that make the heart pound in the face of mistakes and feelings,
dies slowly.

He or she who does not turn things topsy-turvy,
who is unhappy at work,
who does not risk certainty for uncertainty,
to thus follow a dream,
those who do not forego sound advice at least once in their lives,
die slowly.

He who does not travel, who does not read,
who does not listen to music,
who does not find grace in himself,
she who does not find grace in herself,
dies slowly.

He who slowly destroys his own self-esteem,
who does not allow himself to be helped,
who spends days on end complaining about his own bad luck, about the rain that never stops,
dies slowly.

He or she who abandon a project before starting it, who fail to ask questions on subjects he doesn't know, he or she who don't reply when they are asked something they do know,
die slowly.

Let's try and avoid death in small doses,
reminding oneself that being alive requires an effort far greater than the simple fact of breathing.

Only a burning patience will lead
to the attainment of a splendid happiness.”
― Martha Medeiros