If I'm killed - if I'm removed - there is nowhere else for me to go but to my ancestors.
Surrendering means non-desiring.
If love can not keep you together, nothing else can keep you together. And if
Discover yourself, otherwise you have to depend on other people's opinions who don't know themselves.
Nobody is superior, nobody is inferior, but nobody is equal either. People are simply unique, incomparable. You are you, I am I.
Be - don't try to become. Being is enlightenment, becoming is ignorance.
Come out of the masses. Stand alone like a lion and live your life according to your own light.
In Globetrotter, David Albahari explores the consciousness of emigres from the former Yugoslavia, Croatia and Serbia, showing that while abroad, many of us are even more intensely preoccupied with our histories than we were while living in Yugoslavia. His narrative structured out of realistic details and perceptions with self-conscious meditation blending history, civilization and its discontents, and personal experience reaches a density and intensity akin to Krasznahorkai's and Thomas Bernhard's. An intensely idiosyncratic narrative, enjoyable and thoughtful.
You see, being bald and wearing that gray starship uniform, I would have looked like a boy. I wanted to look like a sexy female.
I saw The Sound of Music again recently, and I loved it. Probably it's a more valuable film now than when it first came out, because some of the things it stood for have already disappeared. There's a kind of naive loveliness about it, and love goes by so fast. . . love and music and happiness and family, that's what it's all about. I believe in these things. It would be awful not to, wouldn't it?
I may have smoked too much weed, but I wasn't taking drugs or anything.