Valentina

“Najbolje je zaboraviti, da umre ljudsko sjećanje na sve što je ružno, i da djeca ne pjevaju pjesme o osveti.”
― Meša Selimović, The Fortress

“To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

“And why are you so firmly, so triumphantly, convinced that only the normal and the positive--in other words, only what is conducive to welfare--is for the advantage of man? Is not reason in error as regards advantage? Does not man, perhaps, love something besides well-being? Perhaps he is just as fond of suffering? Perhaps suffering is just as great a benefit to him as well-being? Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering, and that is a fact.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead

“But with superior morale, with an unwavering, fanatical spirit, everything is possible!”
― Timur Vermes, Er ist wieder da