Martina Bertić

“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“I običan čovjek u afektu može odlutati u zlo. Kao dijete koje u histeriji igre u gomili baci kamen, razbije nečiji prozor ili glavu. Obično dijete će nakon toga zaplakati, tražiti oprost, balavo će i uplakano ponavljati kako nije htjelo. Dijete za koje više nema nade oholo će se uspraviti, isprsiti. Ono je već naučilo iz tuđe boli crpiti moć, tuđu bol njušiti kao hijena krv.”
― Ivana Šojat-Kuči

“No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee.”
― John Donne, No man is an island – A selection from the prose

“His habit of reading isolated him: it became such a need that after being in company for some time he grew tired and restless; he was vain of the wider knowledge he had acquired from the perusal of so many books, his mind was alert, and he had not the skill to hide his contempt for his companions' stupidity. They complained that he was conceited; and, since he excelled only in matters which to them were unimportant, they asked satirically what he had to be conceited about. He was developing a sense of humour, and found that he had a knack of saying bitter things, which caught people on the raw; he said them because they amused him, hardly realising how much they hurt, and was much offended when he found that his victims regarded him with active dislike. The humiliations he suffered when he first went to school had caused in him a shrinking from his fellows which he could never entirely overcome; he remained shy and silent. But though he did everything to alienate the sympathy of other boys he longed with all his heart for the popularity which to some was so easily accorded. These from his distance he admired extravagantly; and though he was inclined to be more sarcastic with them than with others, though he made little jokes at their expense, he would have given anything to change places with them.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage