💬 Quotes

"To love a wild thing is to want to set it free; to love a domestic thing is to want to keep it near. But maybe, in the end, it’s all the same: wanting to belong to something outside yourself."

"People are like the seasons; we think we know what’s coming, but the weather has a mind of its own, and we are just the ones trying to find shelter."

"The forest is a secret conversation that has been going on for a billion years, and most of us never bother to listen."

"History is not a simple linear progression of events; it is a tapestry of choices, often made by small men in momentous times."

"Sarajevo remains a place where the fault lines of empires, religions, and ideologies have a habit of colliding with devastating force."

"Gavrilo Princip was not a monster, nor was he a hero; he was a symptom of a crumbling world looking for a catalyst."

"The trigger that pulled the world into the abyss of 1914 was forged in decades of resentment, nationalism, and failed diplomacy."

"To understand the Balkans is to accept that the past is never dead; in this region, it is not even past."

"We look for complex explanations for global disasters, yet often, it takes only one misguided soul to light the fuse of catastrophe."

"The perfume, like the goddess, must be elusive. It must contain a secret. It must be a mystery."

"To be truly modern is to be a person of the present, but to be truly alive is to be a person of the eternity."

"Our culture is a culture of the clock. We are all captives of time, running to keep up with the seconds."

"The beet is the most intense of vegetables. The radish, admittedly, is more feverish, but the fire of the radish is a cold fire, the fire of discontent not of passion. Tomatoes are lusty enough, yet there runs through tomatoes an undercurrent of frivolity. Beets are deadly serious."

"Death is the only spice that makes life worth living. It gives the flavor, the edge, the urgency."

"Belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence."

"Vain trifles as they seem, clothes have, they say, more important offices than merely to keep us warm. They change our view of the world and the world's view of us."

"For it is change, and change alone, that makes life endurable."

"She was a woman. She was a man. She was a poet. She was a person of fashion. She was a traveler. She was a lover."

"Memory is the seamstress, and a capricious seamstress, too. She fits the garment of our past to our present with a needle that pricks as often as it stitches."

"The triumph of the mind is over time. Time, which eats all things, is itself eaten by the mind."