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He tries to find the exit from himself but there is no door. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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Words rich in meaning can be cheap in sound effects. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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Either all lights are turned off or one inner light is missing. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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There is another alphabet, whispering from every leaf, singing from every river, shimmering from every sky. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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The farther away, the closer the home becomes. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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Rizal" is a compulsory course in school, but few teachers make Rizal's novels interesting. If students are taught to enjoy Rizal's works as literature instead of as a lodemine of 'patriotic' allusions I am sure they would not mind reading and rereading the 'Noli me Tangere'. ↗

— Ambeth R. Ocampo

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All classes in proportion to their lack of travel and familiarity with foreign literature are bellicose, prejudiced against foreigners, fond of fighting as a cruel sport -- in short, dog-like in their notions of foreign policy." [Quoted in Socialism and Foreign Policy and War and the Liberal Conscience] ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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My feelings are too loud for words and too shy for the world. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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To come to nothing through something is the way to outside from both sides. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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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. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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