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One shouldn't be afraid of the humans. Well, I am not afraid of the humans, but of what is inhuman i...

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Sadness is also a kind of defence.

If people would know how little brain is ruling the world, they would die of fear.

I don't plan anything any more. I just live my life.

Every human generation has its own illusions with regard to civilization; some believe they are taki...

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The Bridge on the Drina

...every woman has some reason to weep and weeping is sweetest when it is for another's sorrow.

The Bridge on the Drina

Whenever a government feels the need of promising peace and prosperity to its citizens by means of a...

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The Bridge on the Drina

The desire for sudden change and the thought of their realization by force often appears among men l...

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The Bridge on the Drina

Lands of great discoveries are also lands of great injustices.

Between the fear that something would happen and the hope that still it wouldn't, there is much more...

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Ivo Andrić

Novelist

Born: 1892-10-09

Died: 1975-03-13

Ivo Andrić (9 October 1892 – 13 March 1975) was a Yugoslavian novelist, short story writer, and the 1961 winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.More