Quotes About Milorad

#1. 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

Milorad Pavic

#2. Imagine a pleasure in which the moment of satisfaction is simultaneous with the moment of destruction: to kiss is to poison; lifting to your lips this face after which you have ached, dreamed, longed for, the face shatters, every time.

Andrew Holleran

#3. In Seoul, people like me get called Japanese bastards, and in Japan, I'm just another dirty Korean no matter how much money I make or how nice I am. So what the fuck?

Min Jin Lee

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

Milorad Pavic

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

Milorad Pavic

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

Milorad Pavic

#7. My misfortune is that I still resemble a man too much. I should liked to be wholly a beast like that goat. - Quasimodo

Victor Hugo

#8. 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 ...

Milorad Pavic

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

Milorad Pavic

#10. In life, you may face hard times. But in the face of adversity, always seek to remain positive. What we think, will eventually become our life. And if you think positive, you will have a positive life.

Sarah Wilson

#11. When the last of the Reformers died, religion, instead of emancipating the nations, had become an excuse for the criminal art of despots. Calvin preached, and Bellarmine lectured; but Machiavelli reigned.

Lord Acton

#12. Somehow, amid all the sophistication and diversions of this world, we forgot the basics: take care of business at home first, and never betray your blood.

Nelson DeMille

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

Milorad Pavic

#14. 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.

Milorad Pavic

#15. I have nothing against Bosniaks/Islam, but it is the desire to direct political processes that is completely unacceptable.

Milorad Dodik

#16. 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.

Milorad Pavic

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

Milorad Pavic