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1 " Whenever I'm in the company of strangers and speak in a way that reveals my Slav accent, the question follows: "Where are you from?" I always reply politely. It's very important to me that I say exactly where I'm from, and explain where that place is in case the person I'm talking to has never hears of my country ("in Europe, near Italy"). I suppose that's the need in me to feel accepted for what I am. "
― Semezdin Mehmedinović , My Heart
2 " And in fact, I am a foreigner everywhere in the world: as soon as I leave my home, I step into a void. "
3 " Once, long ago, there was a world in which we called different languages "ours". "
4 " Where does our need to accelerate time come from? From impatience to arrive in the near future into which we have projected our trifling desires. Our need to slow time down would surely be natural. But why this strong desire to speed things up? Why are we always in a hurry to reach the future? "
5 " Najbolje fotografije uvijek ostanu nesnimljene. To je u redu. Ne treba sve završiti na fotografiji. Ono što je najvažnije treba da ostane u sjećanju. "
6 " Mi sebi rado postavljamo metafizička pitanja o svijetu, životu i čovjeku. A trebali bismo iznova i stalno pitati: zašto s tolikim naporom i mukom živimo, kad znamo da ćemo ovdje biti samo jednom i kad imamo tako kratko i neponovljivo vrijeme u ovom neopisivo lijepom svijetu? "
7 " The two of us weren’t made for this world, because there’s nothing in it we want to possess. "
8 " In a hospital the most important fact about us is the year of our birth. But in our lives that year is of no particular importance. I had to grow old to understand that. Everyone dies young. "
9 " When we met, we were serious and old beyond our years, but then we began to grow backward and now we are two weary, frightened children. "
10 " I want to believe that her memory will soon come back, because we don’t have the strength to fight against forgetting. "