"Either you will be you or you will not be at all."

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Source : "The Sun Watches the Sun". Book by Dejan Stojanovic, "The Knight" (p. 81), 1999.

Dejan Stojanovic

“You did what was right for those who agreed with you, and that is all in the past. We are talking about our future. Oliver, we cannot live as we did.”
“You are a paintbrush in hands of the Artist.”
“Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility.”
“After it's all over, the early childhood, a chain of birthdays woven with candlelight, piles of presents, voices of relatives singing and praising your promise and future, after the years of schooling, fitting yourself into different size desks, memorizing, reciting, reporting, and performing for jury after jury of teachers, counselors, and administrators, you still feel inadequate, alone, vulnerable, and naked in a world that can be unforgiving and terribly demanding.”
“Don't try to watch two teams in one night. Focus on one team, and focus on five or six guys at first.”
“I think for [Albert] Camus his mother was more than just that. She's love, absolute love. That's why it's written for her, dedicated to 'you who will never be able to read this book'.”

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“I love the weather in L.A., and I can drive 20 minutes to the beach, hike minutes from my house or go snowboarding a couple hours away.”
“I have always been haunted by the feeling that the painter has much to gain from making use of the forces that tend to work against his action”

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