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1 " I saw my earlier selves as different people, acquaintances I had outgrown. I wondered how I could ever have been some of them. "
― Roger Zelazny , The Courts of Chaos (The Chronicles of Amber #5)
2 " Good-bye and hello, as always. "
3 " And the man clad in black and silver with a silver rose upon him? He would like to think that he has learned something of trust, that he has washed his eyes in some clear spring, that he has polished an ideal or two. Never Mind. He may still be only a smart-mouthed meddler, skilled mainly in the minor art of survival, blind as ever the dungeons knew him to the finer shades of irony. Never mind, let it go, let it be. I may never be pleased with him. "
4 " Ali gotovo uvijek idemo najkraćim putem, ravno, pa zaboravljamo da čovjek može napredovati čak i kad ide u krug. "
5 " So I simply said one of the great trite truths: "There is generally more than one side to a story. "
6 " Predosjećaji su se igrali lovice u dubinama moga uma, ali niti jedan od njih nije mi se sviđao dovoljno da bih ga poveo na ručak. "
7 " Yes,' it announced then. 'You are the one.''The one what?' I said.'The one I will accompany. You've no objection to a bird of ill omen following you, have you, Corwin?' It chuckled then, and executed a little dance. "
8 " . . . Few people can say of themselves that they are free of the belief that this world which they see around them is in reality the work of their own imagination. Are we pleased with it, proud of it, then? "