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Ivo Andrić (Serbian Cyrillic: Иво Андрић, pronounced [ǐːʋɔ ǎːndritɕ]; born Ivan Andrić; 9 October 1892 – 13 March 1975) was a Yugoslav[a] novelist, poet and short story writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1961. His writings dealt mainly with life in his native Bosnia under Ottoman rule.

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There comes a time when a man finds himself in front of a dark uncrossable abyss, which he himself has spent years digging. He cannot go forward, and has no way back. Words have failed, tears won't help, and who would he call out to? He can't even remember his own name. Then the man sees that on this god's green earth there is but one true suffering: the torment of guilty conscience.

Dark, Earth, Front, Guilty, Men, Names

Lands of great discoveries are also lands of great injustices.

Discoveries, Discovery, Injustice, Injustices, Land, Lands

I do not fear invisible worlds.

Do Not Fear, Fear, Invisible, World, Worlds

Between the fear that something would happen and the hope that still it wouldn't, there is much more space than one thinks. On that narrow, hard, bare and dark space a lot of us spend their lives.

Dark, Hard, Hope, Space, Spend, Thinking

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.

Know, Men, Needs, Nothing, Searching, Together

Bosnia is a country of hatred and fear.

Bosnia, Country, Hatred

To be a man, to have been born without knowing it or wanting it, to be thrown into the ocean of existence, to be obliged to swim, to exist; to have an identity; to resist the pressure and shocks from the outside and the unforeseen and unforeseeable acts - one's own and those of others - which so often exceed one's capacities? And what is more, to endure one's own thoughts about all this: in a word, to be human.

Knowing, Man, Men, Ocean, Wanting

That wild beast which lives in man and does not dare to show itself until the barriers of law and custom have been removed, was now set free.

Beast, Custom, Dare, Doe, Law, Men

They looked at the paper and saw nothing in those curving lines, but they knew and understood everything, for their geography was in their blood and they felt biologically their picture of the world.

Blood, Everything, Geography, Paper, World

~beautiful soul weeps deep~

Beautiful, Deep, Soul, Weeps

It seems to me, that if people only knew how hard it was for me to endure life, they would find it easier to forgive me for all the wrong things I’ve done and all the good things that I have failed to do. And they would still find a little compassion within them to pity me.

Compassion, Forgive Me, Good, Hard, People, Pity

Sadness is also a kind of defence.

Defence, Kind, Sad, Sadness

What can and doesn't have to be always, at the end, surrenders to something that has to be.

Ends, Surrender, Surrenders

They entered there into the unconscious philosophy of the town; that life was an incomprehensible marvel, since it was incessantly wasted and spent, yet none the less it lasted and endured 'like the bridge on the Drina'.

Bridges, Entered, Lasted, Philosophy, Town, Towns

I gave in to life. I was not defeated but outplayed.

Defeated, Gave, Life, Outplayed