#quo

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

— Dejan Stojanovic

#dejan-stojanovic #inner #light #lights #literature

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

— Dejan Stojanovic

#another #dejan-stojanovic #leaf #literature #literature-quotes

The farther away, the closer the home becomes. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#close #dejan-stojanovic #far-away #home #literature

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

#philippines #rizal #literature-quotes

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

#fighting #foreign-policy #literature #narrow-mindedness #prejudice

It was. It will never be again. Remember. ↗

— Paul Auster

#paul-auster #quotes #literature-quotes

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

— Dejan Stojanovic

#feelings #literature #literature-quotes #loud #poetry-quotes

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

— Dejan Stojanovic

#dejan-stojanovic #literature #literature-quotes #nothing #outside

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. ↗