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There is nobody to wake up eternal seekers. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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After Supper the Master dismissed all except Sun Wukong, Zhu Bajie and Sha the Monk. He took them out with him and said, "Look at that wonderful moolight. It makes me long for the time when I can return home. ↗

— Wu Cheng'en

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The other night we talked about literature's elimination of the unessential, so that we are given a concentrated "dose" of life. I said, almost indignantly, "That's the danger of it, it prepares you to live, but at the same time, it exposes you to disappointments because it gives a heightened concept of living, it leaves out the dull or stagnant moments. You, in your books, also have a heightened rhythm, and a sequence of events so packed with excitement that I expected all your life to be delirious, intoxicated." Literature is an exaggeration, a dramatization, and those who are nourished on it (as I was) are in great danger of trying to approximate an impossible rhythm. Trying to live up to Dostoevskian scenes every day. And between writers there is a straining after extravagance. We incite each other to jazz-up our rhythm. ↗

— Anaïs Nin

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Pose your questions to people and you will get countless useless answers. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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We measure everything by ourselves with almost a necessary conceit. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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Even if you are alone you wage war with yourself. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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The deeper thought is, the taller it becomes. ↗

— 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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If emptiness is empty, how can something be borne or awaken from it? ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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