Tamara Popovic

“I have one problem, I don’t hate people. They disgust me and I want to get away from them. I do not have hatred. I have an escape mechanism.”
― Charles Bukowski

“Ukopavanje je pravi pocetak starenja, jer je covek mlad sve dok se ne boji da zapocinje.”
― Meša Selimović, Death and the Dervish

“Tako je bolje,bez slatkih riječi,bez praznog smješka,bez varanja.
Sve je lijepo dok ništa ne tražimo,a prijatelje je opasno iskušavati.
Čovjek je vjeran samo sebi.”
― Meša Selimović, Death and the Dervish

“But we belong to no one, we’re always on some frontier, always someone’s dowry. Is it then surprising that we’re poor? For centuries we’ve been trying to find, trying to recognize ourselves. Soon we won’t even know who we are, we’re already forgetting that we’ve even been striving for anything. Others do us the honor of letting us march under their banners, since we have none of our own. They entice us when they need us, and reject us when we’re no longer any use to them. The saddest land in the world, the most unhappy people in the world. We’re losing our identity, but we cannot assume another, foreign one. We’ve been severed from our roots, but haven’t become part of anything else; foreign to everyone, both to those who are our kin and those who won’t take us in and adopt us as their own. We live at a crossroads of worlds, at a border between peoples, in everyone’s way. And someone always thinks we’re to blame for something. The waves of history crash against us, as against a reef. We’re fed up with those in power and we’ve made a virtue out of distress: we’ve become noble-minded out of spite. You’re ruthless on a whim. So who’s backward?”
― Meša Selimović, Death and the Dervish