Aleksandar
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Human desire tends to be insatiable. We are so anxious for pleasure that we can never get enough of it. We stimulate our sense organs until they become insensitive, so that if pleasure is to continue they must have stronger and stronger
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“The things I do not dare to do will transform into stories.”
― Time Shelter
― Time Shelter
“I'm getting old. Exiled ever further from the Rome of childhood in the distant empty provinces of old age, from which there is no return. And Rome no longer answers my letters. Somewhere the past exists as a house or a street that you've left for a short while, for five minutes, and you've found yourself in a strange city. It's been written that the past is a foreign country. Nonsense. The past is my home country. The future is a foreign country, full of strange faces, I won't set foot there.
Let me go back home... my mother told me not to be late.”
― Time Shelter
Let me go back home... my mother told me not to be late.”
― Time Shelter
“For six years, you showed Pero reverence and admiration. So Pero, a sociopath, didn’t want to extinguish the rare flame of respect that illuminated his worthless ego,” Brian explained. “Killing you would have made him feel less powerful, not more.”
― The Bosnia List: A Memoir of War, Exile, and Return
― The Bosnia List: A Memoir of War, Exile, and Return
“We’ve worked with a number of companies similar to yours, and we’ve found that these three challenges come up again and again as by far the most troubling. Is that what you’re seeing too, or would you add something else to the list?”
― The Challenger Sale: Taking Control of the Customer Conversation
― The Challenger Sale: Taking Control of the Customer Conversation
“The reason that so many people don’t really feel happy while they’re building up their success in the eyes of society is that they are living in competition.”
― The Courage to Be Disliked: How to Free Yourself, Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness
― The Courage to Be Disliked: How to Free Yourself, Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness
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