Milorad Pavić quotes
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“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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“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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“Unfortunate and wretched are those who have respected a book they did not love and hated those they did.”
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“And so, when I began to read the proffered pages, I at one moment lost the train of thought in the text and drowned it in my own feelings. In these seconds of absence and self-oblivion, centuries passed with every read but uncomprehended and unabsorbed line, and when, after a few moments, I came to and re-established contact with the text, I knew that the reader who returns from the open seas of his feelings is no longer the same reader who embarked on that sea only a short while ago.”
-- Milorad PavićSource : "Dictionary of the Khazars". Book by Milorad Pavić, 1984.
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“In the direction that your fear is growing, you're on the right path.”
-- Milorad Pavić
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Source : Abbi Glines, Colleen Hoover, Jamie McGuire (2013). “The Atria Indie Lovers Collection: Twisted Perfection, Losing Hope, and Red Hill”, p.205, Simon and Schuster
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“You can't complain about your dressing room or you'll look like Celine Dion.”
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“I love to decorate a room - from the furniture to the objects to the books.”
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