Miloš Kostić

“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

“Najgore je kad ljudi ćute, kad se ne objasne, pa svaka sumnja ima pravo na život. I moja i tvoja.”
― Meša Selimović, Magla i mjesečina

“Univerzum o kojem se ovde govori jeste moj privatni Univerzum pa, utoliko, nepotpun, protivrečan i usavršljiv.”
― Ernesto Sabato, Uno y el Universo

“he would now have comprehended that work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and that play consists of whaterver a body is not obliged to do. And this would help him to understand why construcing artificial flowers or performing on a tread-mill, is work, whilst rolling nine-pins or climbing Mont Blanc is only amusement. There are wealthy gentlemen in England who drive four-horse passenger-coaches twenty or thirty miles on a daily line, in the summer, because the privilege costs them considerable money; but if they were offered wages for the service that would turn it into work, then they would resign.”
― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer