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Willa Cather
“That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. When it comes to one, it comes as naturally as sleep.”
Willa Cather, My Ántonia

Confucius
“A superior man in dealing with the world is not for anything or against anything. He follows righteousness as the standard.”
Confucius

Miroslav Krleža
“Rat kao takav nadasve je zagonetan događaj svoje vrste. U ratu sva ljudska svojstva dobivaju neko posebno osvjetljenje, kada se mnoge stvari, što ih u mirnom civilnom životu, gledamo svakodnevno maskirane i šminkane (kako-tako podnošljive) najednom prikažu u svoj očajnoj bijedi, kao stare bludnice na stolu za seciranje. U ratovima javlja se u prvom planu ljudska glupost. Ljudska glupost je sama po sebi elementarna, ogromna, svakodnevna pojava, a čini se da rat djeluje na ljudsku glupost kao grmljavina na gljive: ona niče na svim stranama sablasno. Glupost ratna, što je susrećemo svaki dan na ulici, u društvu, po kavanama, po novinama, tako je sablasna, da pod korakom njenog mamutskog stopala zdrava pamet ostaje zgnječena kao mozak s jajetom na tanjiru. A kod nas ta ratna glupost, naravno glupa i kretenska sama po sebi, poprimila je neke regionalne, naročito blesave forme po domaćim nastranostima.”
Miroslav Krleža, Deset krvavih godina i drugi politički eseji

“A man's greatest pleasure is to defeat his enemies, to drive them before him, to take from them that which they possessed, to see those whom they cherished in tears, to ride their horses, and to hold their wives and daughters in his arms.”
Ghengis Khan

George Orwell
“A normal human being does not want the Kingdom of Heaven: he wants life on earth to continue. This is not solely because he is "weak," "sinful" and anxious for a "good time." Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise. Ultimately it is the Christian attitude which is self-interested and hedonistic, since the aim is always to get away from the painful struggle of earthly life and find eternal peace in some kind of Heaven or Nirvana. The humanist attitude is that the struggle must continue and that death is the price of life.”
George Orwell
tags: death

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