"Searching for what I need, and I don't……" — Ivo Andric
"Searching for what I need, and I don't even know precisely what that is, I was going from a man to a man, and I saw that all of them together have less than me who has nothing, and that I left to each of them a bit of that what I don't have and I've been searching for."
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Ivo Andric
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23 Quotes by Ivo Andric
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One shouldn't be afraid of the humans. Well, I am not afraid of the humans, but of what is inhuman…
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When I am not desperate, I am worthless.
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Between the fear that something would happen and the hope that still it wouldn't, there is much more space than…
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If people would know how little brain is ruling the world, they would die of fear.
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Sadness is also a kind of defence.
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Lands of great discoveries are also lands of great injustices.
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What can and doesn't have to be always, at the end, surrenders to something that has to be.
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Bosnia is a country of hatred and fear.
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That wild beast which lives in man and does not dare to show itself until the barriers of law and…
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There is no rule without revolts and conspiracies, even as there is no property without work and worry.
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Forgetfulness heals everything and song is the most beautiful manner of forgetting, for in song man feels only what he…
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They entered there into the unconscious philosophy of the town; that life was an incomprehensible marvel, since it was incessantly…
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