Dictionary of the Khazars QUOTES

21 " Я привыкла к своим мыслям, как к своим платьям. В талии они всегда одной и той
же ширины, и вижу я их повсюду, даже на перекрестках. И что хуже всего - из-за них уже и перекрестков не видно. "

― Milorad Pavić , Dictionary of the Khazars

22 " Знание - товар скоропортящийся, того и гляди заплесневеет. Так же как и будущее. "

― Milorad Pavić , Dictionary of the Khazars

23 " It has been said ever since that the Brankoviches of Erdély count in Tzintzar, lie in Walachian, are silent in Greek, sing hymns in Russian, are cleverest in Turkish and speak their mother tongue --Serbian-- only when they intend to kill. "

― Milorad Pavić , Dictionary of the Khazars

24 " Knowledge is a perishable commodity; it can turn sour in a second. Like the future. "

― Milorad Pavić , Dictionary of the Khazars

25 " Always remember - you work because you don't know how to live. If you knew how to live, you would not work, and science wouldn't exist for you. But everybody taught us only how to work, not how to live. I don't know how to live either. "

― Milorad Pavić , Dictionary of the Khazars

26 " Птица, която ловува по мочурищата и блатата, бързо потъва, ако не се движи. Час по час трябва да си вади крака от тинята и да го мести, независимо от това хванала ли е нещо, или не. "

― Milorad Pavić , Dictionary of the Khazars

27 " Ponekad davna proleća, puna toplote i mirisa, procvetaju još jednom u nama. I mi ih pronosimo kroz sadašnju zimu štiteći ih prsima. A onda, jednoga dana, ta davna proleća počnu štititi naša prsa od mraza kad se nađemo s one strane prozora na kojoj mraz nije samo slika. (...) Zamisli sada, u ovoj zimi, dva takva proleća što se dodiruju kao dve livade mirisama. Eto šta nam je potrebno umesto ogrtača. "

― Milorad Pavić , Dictionary of the Khazars

28 " The hierarchy of death is, in fact, the only thing that makes possible a system of contracts between the various levels of reality in an otherwise vast space where deaths endlessly repeat themselves like echoes within echoes... "

― Milorad Pavić , Dictionary of the Khazars

29 " Have nothing to do with things that involve the three worlds of Islam, Christianity, and Judaism here on earth, so that we may have nothing to do with their underworlds. For those who hate one another are not the problem in this world. They always resemble one another. Enemies are always the same, or become so with time, for they could not be enemies otherwise. It is those who actually differ among themselves who pose the greatest danger. They long to meet one another, because their differences do not bother them. And they are the worst. We and our enemies will combine forces to fight those who allow us to differ from them and do not let this difference disturb their sleep; we will destroy them in one fell swoop from three sides... "

― Milorad Pavić , Dictionary of the Khazars

30 " Sometimes bygone springs, full of warmth and scent, blossom yet again inside us. And we carry them through the winter, protecting them with our chests. Then, one day, those bygone springs begin protecting our chests from the frost when we find ourselves on the other side of the window, where winter is not just a picture. "

― Milorad Pavić , Dictionary of the Khazars

31 " He grew up and later lived with an insatiable wanderlust. He always carried a rug with him and used to say, "My home is where my rug is"; he spent the better part of his life among tribes so wild that, after shaking hands, he always had to count his fingers. Only illness provided some sort of island of peace in his life. As soon as he fell ill, he would forget every other language save his own. "

― Milorad Pavić , Dictionary of the Khazars

32 " Пусть твои глаза остановятся на мне в тот раз, когда я буду хорошо готова к своей роли, потому что никто не бывает мудрым и красивым все семь дней в неделю. "

― Milorad Pavić , Dictionary of the Khazars

33 " Хазары считают, что старость - это результат действия взглядов как своих на
собственное тело, так и чужих, потому что взгляды вспарывают и перепахивают тела самыми различными и убийственными
орудиями, которые создаются страстями, ненавистью, намерениями и желаниями. "

― Milorad Pavić , Dictionary of the Khazars

34 " Ведь все наши проблемы на этом свете проистекают из того, что мы вынуждены тратить наши дни такими, какие они есть, из-за того, что не можем перескочить
через самые худшие. В этом-то все дело. С моим яйцом в кармане вы, заметив, что наступающий день слишком мрачен, разобьете его и избежите всех неприятностей. В результате, правда, ваша жизнь станет на один день короче, но зато вы сможете сделать из этого
плохого дня прекрасную яичницу. "

― Milorad Pavić , Dictionary of the Khazars

35 " Кој сака да освои тврдина најнапред мора да ја освои својата душа... "

― Milorad Pavić , Dictionary of the Khazars

36 " Enemies are always the same, or become so with time, for they could not be enemies otherwise. It is those who actually differ among themselves who pose the greatest danger. They long to meet one another, because their differences do not bother them. And they are the worst. We and our enemies will combine forces to fight those who allow us to differ from them and do not let this difference disturb their sleep; we will destroy them in one fell swoop from three sides... "

― Milorad Pavić , Dictionary of the Khazars

37 " Postupci u čovečijem životu su poput jela, a misli I osećanja kao začini. Neće dobro proći onaj ko posoli trešnje ili sirćetom zalije kolač... "

― Milorad Pavić , Dictionary of the Khazars

38 " Zapisao je da u slučajevima kada se dve osobe uzajamno sanjaju, pa san jedne gradi javu druge, uvek malo sna pretekne i s jedne i s druge strane. To su “deca sna”. San, doduše, traje kraće nego java sanjanog, ali zato je san uvek neuporedivo dublji od bilo kakve jave I stoga vazda preostaje malo šuta, “višak građe” koji ne može da stane bez ostatka u javu sanjanog, nego se preliva I lepu za javu nekog trećeg lica, koje zbog toga trpi znatne tegobe i promene. Taj treći je po pravilu u složenijem položaju od prve dvojice, njegova sloboda volje je dva puta više ograničavana podsvešću nego što je kog one dvojice slučaj, jer se viškovi energiej I građe, koji pretiču u snovima jednog I drugog, naizmenično prelivaju u duhovni život trećeg I on tako psotaje neka vrsta dvopolca, koji se priklanja čas jednom čas drugom sanjaču. "

― Milorad Pavić , Dictionary of the Khazars

39 " Bog o tebi nema pojma; on niti vidi tvoje namere, niti tvoje misli, ni tvoja dela. To što ti je anđeo došao u san i buncao, znači samo da nije imao gde da prenoći, a napolju je verovatno padala kiša. A što je kratko ostao, to je po svoj prilici jer mu je u tvome snu suviše smrdelo. Operi svoje snove drugi put... "

― Milorad Pavić , Dictionary of the Khazars

40 " According to one of these terrible stories, the source of Daubmannus' erstwhile youthful cheerfulness and spirit, despite his affliction, was the fact that, hunched and bent as he was, he could reach down and suck at himself, and so he learned that the male seed tastes like a woman's milk. This was how he kept renewing himself. "

― Milorad Pavić , Dictionary of the Khazars