Merima Beganovic

“Sve će proći. Ali, kakva je to utjeha? Proći će i radost, proći će i ljubav, proći će i život. Zar je nada u tome da sve prođe?”
― Mesa Selimovic, The Fortress

“It’s dark because you are trying too hard.
Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly.
Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply.
Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them.

I was so preposterously serious in those days, such a humorless little prig.
Lightly, lightly – it’s the best advice ever given me.
When it comes to dying even. Nothing ponderous, or portentous, or emphatic.
No rhetoric, no tremolos,
no self conscious persona putting on its celebrated imitation of Christ or Little Nell.
And of course, no theology, no metaphysics.
Just the fact of dying and the fact of the clear light.

So throw away your baggage and go forward.
There are quicksands all about you, sucking at your feet,
trying to suck you down into fear and self-pity and despair.
That’s why you must walk so lightly.
Lightly my darling,
on tiptoes and no luggage,
not even a sponge bag,
completely unencumbered.”
― Aldous Huxley , Island

“Hiljadu nečijih srećnih časaka biće kao ovaj, ali ovaj nikada više. Hiljadu tuđih ljubavi biće kao ova, ali ova nikada više. Nikada: jedina konačnost. Prvi put znam šta je sreća, osjećam je, vidim, mirišem. Cio svijet i cijela vasiona, nas troje. Nikog drugog osim nas nema.”
― Mesa Selimovic

“Objašnjavanjem stvari, oduzimamo im nešto od one lepe čarolije, od onog zlatastog omota, ispod kojeg se kriju tolika čudesna značenja svega što izgleda isto.

Reči su iskraćale. I iznošene. I krpljene. Mereno od pre vremena i mnogo posle vremena, ostaje samo smisao kao čudo svih čuđenja.”
― Miroslav Antić