Milorad Pavic Quotes

#1. In the direction that your fear is growing, you're on the right path.

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#2. When we read, it is not ours to absorb all that is written. Our thoughts are jealous and they constantly blank out the thoughts of others, for there is not room enough in us for two scents at one time.

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#3. He was creating the first letters of the Slavonic alphabet. He started with rounded letters, but the Slavonic language was so wild that the ink could not hold it, and so he made a second alphabet of barred letters and caged the unruly language in them like a bird.

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#4. I dream in a language I do not understand when I'm awake.

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#5. He took blue and red and placed them next to each other, painting the eyes of an angel. And I saw the angel's eyes turn violet

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#6. He knew that when charging on horseback or making love exhaling was more important than inhaling.

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#7. Each of us promenades his thought, like a monkey on a leash. When you read, you always have to such monkeys: your own and one belonging to someone else. Or, even worse, a monkey and a hyena. Now, consider what you will feed them. For a hyena does not eat the same things as a monkey ...

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#8. Houses are like books: so many of them around you, yet you only look at a few and visit or reside in fewer still.

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#9. Unfortunate and wretched are those who have respected a book they did not love and hated those they did.

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#10. Tenecki smelled smoke, cursed, and thought:
-Never enough time for eternity!!

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