"You are not what you are; you are darkness looking for light within."

Stojanovic, Dejan on darkness   

"There is a pledge of the big and of the small in the infinite."

Stojanovic, Dejan on infinity   

"The world contained in a seed is determined by its program."

Stojanovic, Dejan on world   

"We don’t know anything about silent sages, buried knowledge, the eye of the mute poet, serene seers, yet how many talkative destroyers, prophets and ideologues, teachers and beautifiers there are on the other side."

Stojanovic, Dejan on history   

"The words of the world want to make sentences."

Bachelard, Gaston on words
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"Although personal calling I sense—who am I? even if I am, I don't know."

Stojanovic, Dejan on sense   

"And what does infinity mean to you? Are you not infinity and yourself?"

Stojanovic, Dejan on infinity   

"The farther away, the closer the home becomes."

Stojanovic, Dejan on home   

"I can see myself before myself—a being through dark scenery."

Stojanovic, Dejan on darkness   

"Into the day as by dream I swim to the music of nourished meaning."

Stojanovic, Dejan on meaning   

"We hear only our own voices, still echoes returning to our emptiness. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on emptiness   

"Everybody talks, but there is no conversation. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on conversation   

"How many unuttered words died in the heads of those for whom a word was too expensive. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on words   

"Different languages, the same thoughts; servant to thoughts and their masters. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on language   

"Through words to the meaning of thoughts with no words. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on words   

"The same word we love and hate, leaves in different directions, taking different paths. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on words   

"Arrival in the world is really a departure and that, which we call departure, is only a return. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on world   

"Get close to grass and you’ll see a star. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on stardom   

"God is busy and has no time for you. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on god   

"Two forces create eternity – a fairy tale and a dream from the fairy tale. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on eternity   

"The world is a fairy tale; we are its guardians."

Stojanovic, Dejan on world   

"But then they danced down the street like dingledodies, and I shambled after as I've been doing all my life after people who interest me, because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!""

Kerouac, Jack on passion
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"When the long bygone Lee Po wanted to say something, he could do it with only a few words."

Stojanovic, Dejan on words   

"After Homer and Dante, is a whole century of creating worth one Shakespeare? "

Stojanovic, Dejan on writing   

"He did not waste time in a vain search for a place in history. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on history   

"Teaching others, he corrected himself. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on education   

"In the lie of truth lies the truth. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on truth   

"I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more --the feeling that I could last for ever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men; the deceitful feeling that lures us on to joys, to perils, to love, to vain effort --to death; the triumphant conviction of strength, the heat of life in the handful of dust, the glow in the heart that with every year grows dim, grows cold, grows small, and expires --and expires, too soon, too soon --before life itself."

Conrad, Joseph on youth
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"Truth is hard-hearted and unrelenting, too clear, precise; a lie is much more imaginative. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on truth   

"A smiling lie is a whirlwind, easy to enter, but hard to escape. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on lie   

"The deeper thought is, the taller she becomes. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on thoughts and thinking   

"How alive is thought, invisible, yet without thought there is no sight. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on thoughts   

"We forget old stories, but those stories remain the same. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on story and story-telling   

"How does one say something new and not retell? "

Stojanovic, Dejan on literature   

"Universe is the Sun watching its own self. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on universe   

"Sun is a hearthstone, a merry-go-round of extinguished hearthstones. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on sun   

"Absolute is a game with only one player where Absolute forgets itself so it would have a reason to fulfill the motion while returning. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on philosophy   

"In the essence of truth lies deceit. Deceit dispels the boredom of the Absolute. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on truth   

"Darkness does not age; nothing is always nothing."

Stojanovic, Dejan on darkness   

"God is a cloud from which rain fell. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on god