Summary
Meša Selimović: Novels
*Silences*
"There is no guide for any path in life, each one is untested, unrepeatable, that's why adventure is the rule in life, not the exception, because it's a journey through unexplored regions, which no one after us can repeat, all paths are pursued, a new configuration is always created anew, a different landscape, a different climate always emerges, for everyone special."
*Dervish and death*
"Now I understood: that is friendship, love for another. Everything else can deceive, that cannot. Everything else can slip away and leave us alone, that cannot, because it depends on us. I cannot say to him: be my friend. But I can say: I will be your friend."
*Fortress*
"There are three of us, in the whole world there are only three: my fingers, her body and his uniform damar. It doesn't matter what happens in the world, it doesn't matter what will happen tomorrow, what matters is this hour of bliss without thoughts. A thousand happy moments of someone will be like this one, but this one never again. A thousand other people's loves will be like this one, but this one never again."
*Island*
"Fate has set me on this path, I don't know of another, and I will walk on it as long as I have the strength. Here I saw the infinity of heaven and the open sea on which my eyes rest, and I would not exchange this for any place in the world. There may be more beautiful, dearer nowhere. This place is me, it is my life and my love."
*Circle*
"They were both modest people. They occupied little space in life. They did not owe humanity anything. They were small and unimportant, as inconspicuous as two jackdaws in a flock of jackdaws; they were not distinguished by abilities, intelligence, or anything special. And yet they were special and exceptional, because of love and because of suffering."
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