Kristian

“Zašto je put do žene tako vijugav i tajan i zašto on sa svojom slavom i snagom ne može da ga pređe, a prelaze ga svi gori od njega? Svi, samo, on u silnoj i smiješnoj starosti, cijeli svoj vijek pruža ruke kao u snu. Što žene traže?”
― Ivo Andrić, Put Alije Đerzeleza

“In 1999, The Black Book of Communism endeavored to attempt the impossible task of tabulating a Marxist-Leninist death toll in the twentieth century. It came up with a figure approaching 100 million. Here is the breakdown:

*USSR: 20 million deaths
*China: 65 million deaths
*Vietnam: 1 million deaths
*North Korea: 2 million deaths
*Cambodia: 2 million deaths
*Eastern Europe: 1 million deaths
*Latin America: 150,000 deaths
*Africa: 1.7 million deaths
*Afghanistan: 1.5 million deaths
*The international communist movement and
Communist parties not in power:
about 10,000 deaths”
― Paul Kengor, The Devil and Karl Marx: Communism's Long March of Death, Deception, and Infiltration

“You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at a picture for a second and think of it all your life.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

“When you feel homesick,’ he said, ‘just look up. Because the moon is the same wherever you go.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch