“Kad smo bili mladi, učili su nas o bratstvu i jedinstvu. Verovali smo u to i ponašali se u skladu sa time. Kasnije je trebalo da naučimo da mrzimo jedni druge. Ali, to nismo uspeli. Naš identitet iz mladosti ubijen je u jednom trenutku početkom devedestih.”
― Dagbok fra Beograd
― Dagbok fra Beograd
“Describing our romantic longings in 'Life preserves,' therapist Harriet Lerner shares that most people want a partner 'who is mature and intelligent, loyal and trustworthy, loving and attentive, sensitive and open, kind and nurturant, competent and responsible.' No matter the intensity of this desire, she concludes: 'Few of us evaluate a prospective partner with the same objectivity and clarity that we might use to select a household appliance or a car.' To be capable of critically evaluating a partner we would need to be able to stand back and look critically at ourselves, at our needs, desires, and longings..... We fear that evaluating our needs and then carefully choosing partners will reveal that there is no one for us to love. Most of us prefer to have a partner who is lacking then no partner at all. What becomes apparent is that we may be more interested in finding a partner than in knowing love.”
― All About Love: New Visions
― All About Love: New Visions
“Sometimes the principal emotion of the person arrested is relief and even happiness! This is another aspect of human nature. It happened before the Revolution too: the Yekaterinodar schoolteacher Serdyukova, involved in the case of Aleksandr Ulyanov, felt only relief when she was arrested. But this feeling was a thousand times stronger during epidemics of arrests when all around you they were hauling in people like yourself and still had not come for you; for some reason they were taking their time. After all, that kind of exhaustion, that kind of suffering, is worse than any kind of arrest, and not only for a person of limited courage.”
― The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
― The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
“Are we or are we not on an invisible spinning top, whipped by a thread of sunlight, on a grain of crazed sand which turns and turns without ever knowing why, without ever reaching a destination, as if it enjoyed turning like that, to make us feel a little colder or warmer, and make us die (often feeling that we have merely carried out a series of meaningless gestures) after fifty or sixty years?”
― The Late Mattia Pascal
― The Late Mattia Pascal
“-Одакле си ти?
-Из Куча, Господаре
-А чи си ти из Куча?
-Миљана Јанкова, Поповића с Медуна
-Нијесам чуо за њега
-Ако нијеси чуо за њега, а ти чуј за мене: ја сам Марко Миљанов и бољега Куча од мене нема!”
― Primjeri čojstva i junaštva
-Из Куча, Господаре
-А чи си ти из Куча?
-Миљана Јанкова, Поповића с Медуна
-Нијесам чуо за њега
-Ако нијеси чуо за њега, а ти чуј за мене: ја сам Марко Миљанов и бољега Куча од мене нема!”
― Primjeri čojstva i junaštva
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