Antonia

“Ultimately, saying that you don't care about privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different from saying you don't care about freedom of speech because you have nothing to say.”
― Edward Snowden, Permanent Record

“Do viđenja, dragi, do viđenja.
Ljubav, mili, u grudima spava.
Ništa ovaj rastanak ne mijenja,
možda novi susret obećava.

Do viđenja, mili, bez ruke i slova
neka ti tuga obrve ne povije.
Smrt nikad nije bila nešto nova,
ni život nije ništa novije.”
― Sergej Jesenjin, Crni čovjek - izabrane pjesme

“Men had always been the reciters of poetry in the desert. And I? I was the skill among them. The mechanic. The others wrote out their love of solitude and meditated on what they found there. They were never sure of what I thought of it all. For them I was a bit too cunning to be a lover of the desert. More like Odysseus. Still, I was.”
― Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient

“Could you fall in love with her if she wasn’t smarter than you? I mean, she may not be smarter than you. But isn’t it important for you to think she is smarter than you in order to fall in love? Think now. Why is that? Because we want to know things, how the pieces fit. Talkers seduce, words direct us into corners. We want more than anything to grow and change. Brave new world.”
― Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient