Dejan Stojanovic famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Knighthood lies above eternity; it doesn’t live off fame, but rather deeds.
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My feelings are too loud for words and too shy for the world.
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Since there is no real silence, Silence will contain all the sounds, All the words, all the languages, All knowledge, all memory.
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There is another alphabet, whispering from every leaf, singing from every river, shimmering from every sky.
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They blossomed, they did not talk about blossoming.
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To understand possible means to understand impossible.
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I am the shore and the ocean, awaiting myself on both sides.
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While gazing at myself from yourself, I was beautiful.
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The deeper thought is, the taller it becomes.
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Whatever others may say, they say it to deceive and comfort themselves, not help you.
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Strangers are endearing because you don’t know them yet.
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It is easy to see the glow but hard to recognize the awakening of silence.
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The world cannot be translated; It can only be dreamed of and touched.
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To accomplish the perfect perfection, a little imperfection helps.
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Nothing is part of everything.
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Fly without wings; Dream with open eyes; See in darkness.
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From whichever side I start, I think I am in an old place where others have been before me.
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Color is the overpowering of black; white – the final victory over black.
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Pose your questions to people and you will get countless useless answers.
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Either you will be you or you will not be at all.
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The same word we love and hate, leaves in different directions, taking different paths.
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How many unuttered words died in the heads of those for whom a word was too expensive.
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Everybody talks, but there is no conversation.
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To say more while saying less is the secret of being simple.
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How alive is thought, invisible, yet without thought there is no sight.
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To risk life to save a smile on a face of a woman or a child is the secret of chivalry.
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Do not look too far for you will see nothing.
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There is a moonlight note in the Moonlight Sonata; there is a thunder note in an angry sky.
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Dreams are our only geography—our native land.
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Be aware of the high notes, of the blissful faces and their soft messages, and listen for the silent message of a highly decorated gift.
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You are not what you are; You are darkness Looking for light within.
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Courage is more important than to be deceived by shallow victory waiting for a delayed defeat.
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Nothing reminds us of an awakening more than rain.
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I recreate myself; that is my only power.
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Words rich in meaning can be cheap in sound effects.
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Beyond all vanities, fights, and desires, omnipotent silence lies.
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Too often, feelings arrive too soon, waiting for thoughts that often come too late.
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Before the first before and after the last after, there is night waiting.
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There are many secrets; don’t try to resolve them all.
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For a moment at least, be a smile on someone else’s face.
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Based on the law of probability Everything is possible because The sheer existence of possibility Confirms the existence Of impossibility.
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What you gain here, you lose on the other side.
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Mathematics doesn’t care about those beyond the numbers.
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Through everything I have passed but nowhere I have been.
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All dust is the same dust. Temporarily separated To go peacefully And enjoy the eternal nap.
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He will understand when it is too late that it is easier to love.
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Nothing is made, nothing disappears. The same changes, at the same places, never stopping.
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My mathematics is simple: one plus one = one.
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I travel, always arriving in the same place.
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Deliver thunder, God If you choose not to talk.
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A hidden spark of the dream sleeps In the forest and waits In the celestial spheres of the brain.
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Life eats life to live.
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A word only writes Its night and rides Its dream.
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We will go far away, to nowhere, to conquer, to fertilize until we become tired. Then we will stop and there will be our home.
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One hand I extend into myself, the other toward others.
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What does infinity mean to you? Are you not infinity and yourself?
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To sense the peace of extinguished passion Happiness in not knowing the ultimate knowledge
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I enjoy it when the world smiles; the more smiles, the warmer I am.
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It is not possible to express the most precious insights, To see all that craves to be seen, To visit even the closest neighbors in the universe, To learn all that needs to be learned, To live without dying, And I am sad about it. But I lived And I am happy about that.
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If you are only what you are, You at least have a chance Not to outsmart, But be on a par with yourself And that is worth trying.
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Possible is more a matter of attitude, A matter of decision, to choose Among the impossible possibilities, When one sound opportunity Becomes a possible solution.
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Either all lights are turned off or one inner light is missing.
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Even if you are alone you wage war with yourself.
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A breeze, a forgotten summer, a smile, all can fit into a storefront window.
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We measure everything by ourselves with almost a necessary conceit.
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We hear only our own voices, still echoes returning to our emptiness.
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Trying too hard to be too good, even when trying to be bad, is too good for the bad, too bad for the good.
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He tries to find the exit from himself but there is no door.
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We forget old stories, but those stories remain the same.
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Some people complain there are too many people on earth, Some people complain about secret societies, Some people accuse others of not being able to wake up early. Almost all people complain about something.
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In trying to be perfect, He perfected the art of anonymity, Became imperceptible And arrived nowhere from nowhere.
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Why poetry, you ask? Because of life, I answer.
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