Kristina

“Ako čovjek nauči živjeti sam sa čitavim sobom, nositi svoje putne torbe pune potisnutih sramotnih i teških stvari, ponekad ih otvori i pogleda, onako, uzme dug tren i pogleda svu tu trulež i sve to smeće... Bolje će se razumjeti, ako ništa drugo. I biti sretniji. I biti fajter u životu, fer prema sebi valjda. Što god da si prošao, sada si ovdje, preživio si, stojiš na dvije noge, sa svojom bagažom i demonima. Trebaš napraviti korak, i to je sve.”
― Kristian Novak, Črna mati zemla

“Knowledge forbidden?
Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord
Envy them that? Can it be a sin to know?
Can it be death?”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

“By his monstrous way of life he seemed to have put himself beyond the limits of reality. Nothing moved him or spoke to him from the real world unless he heard it in an echo of the infuriated cries within him.”
― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

“In societies reduced to blur and glut, terror is the only meaningful act. There's too much everything, more things and messages and meanings that we can use in ten thousand lifetimes. Inertia-hysteria. Is history possible? Is anyone serious? Who do we take serious? Only the lethal believer, the person who kills and dies for faith. Everything else is absorbed. The artist is absorbed, the madman in the street is absorbed an processed and incorporated. Give him a dollar, put him in a TV commercial. Only the terrorists stand outside. The culture hasn't figured out how to assimilate him. It's confusing when they kill the innocent. But this is precisely the language of being noticed, the only language the West understands. The way they determine how we see them. The way they dominate the rush of endless streaming images.”
― Don DeLillo, Mao II