Maja

“Čovek potopljen u stvarnost gubi od kritičke moći koliko je teška njime zauzeta stvarnost.”
― Borislav Pekić, Besnilo

“Man has gone out to explore other worlds and other civilizations without having explored his own labyrinth of dark passages and secret chambers, and without finding what lies behind doorways that he himself has sealed.”
― Stanisław Lem, Solaris

“Fulfillment, Shevek thought, is a function of time. The search for pleasure is circular, repetitive, atemporal, The variety seeking of the spectator, the thrill hunter, the sexually promiscuous, always ends in the same place. It has an end. It comes to the end and has to start over. It is not a journey and return, but a closed cycle, a locked room, a cell.
Outside the locked room is the landscape of time, in which the spirit may, with luck and courage, construct the fragile, makeshift, improbable roads and cities of fidelity: a landscape inhabitable by human beings.
It is not until an act occurs within the landscape of the past and the future that it is a human act. Loyalty, which asserts the continuity of past and future, binding time into a whole, is the root of human strength; there is no good to be done without it.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

“U Žepču kažu da ti niko »nafaku« ne može uzeti, a u Sarajevu opet vele da niko sudbini umaći ne može. U Žepču ti »nafaka«, u Sarajevu sudbina.

Ima, čini mi se Šolohov knjigu »Čovjekova sud­bina«... (To se ja dvoumim zato što je u SSSR-u sudbina ukinuta.) Bio je i film. Kad ga gledaš plačeš kao da je »Mama Huanita«... Ali sve je tanko... Postoje atomi, to je naučno dokazano, samo atomi, nigdje nikoga... Ali i to je tanko...”
― Nedžad Ibrišimović