Miljenko Jergovic famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Gently stroke your books, dear stranger, and remember they are dust.
-- Miljenko Jergovic

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Perhaps there really are occasions in life when itâ€™s best not to say anything.
-- Miljenko Jergovic

#Say Anything #Occasions
Itâ€™s not easy to get rid of unwanted things.
-- Miljenko Jergovic

#Easy #Unwanted
But perhaps, after so much talk and fighting, unspoken words do create a silence in whose gentleness the survivors of good and bad can sleep easy.
-- Miljenko Jergovic

#Sleep #Fighting #Silence
It’s not easy to get rid of unwanted things.
-- Miljenko Jergovic

#Easy #Easy To Get #Unwanted

To her- Hand in hand we come Christopher Robin and I To lay this book in your lap. Say you're surprised? Say you like it? Say it's just what you wanted? Because it's yours- because we love you.
Some men are more interesting than their books but my book is more interesting than its man.
The selection of a book-plate is such a serious matter.
Even when reading is impossible, the presence of books acquired (by passionate devotion to them) produces such an ecstasy that the buying of more books than one can peradventure read is nothing less than the soul reaching towards infinity ... we cherish books even if unread, their mere presence exudes comfort, their ready access, reassurance.
The troubles of our proud and angry dust are from eternity, and shall not fail. Bear them we can, and if we can we must. Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.
We are all made from star dust and we will all return to star dust, like a cosmic palindrome.
Truth is a well-known pathological liar. It invariably turns out to be Fiction wearing a fancy frock. Self-proclaimed Fiction, on the other hand, is entirely honest. You can tell this, because it comes right out and says, "I'm a Liar," right there on the dust jacket.
Ashes to ashes. Dust to dust. We are nothing, but dust and to dust we shall return. Amen.
Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.
In middle school, I really didn't have music, but in high school, I remember taking a lot of choir and drama.

Miljenko Jergovic famous quotes

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