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And so, when I began to read the proffered pages, I at one moment lost the train of thought in the text and drowned it in my own feelings. In these seconds of absence and self-oblivion, centuries passed with every read but uncomprehended and unabsorbed line, and when, after a few moments, I came to and re-established contact with the text, I knew that the reader who returns from the open seas of his feelings is no longer the same reader who embarked on that sea only a short while ago.

~ Milorad Pavić

Milorad Pavić Dictionary Khazar Milorad Pavic Reading

Each of us promenades his thought, like a monkey on a leash. When you read, you always have to such monkeys: your own and one belonging to someone else. Or, even worse, a monkey and a hyena. Now, consider what you will feed them. For a hyena does not eat the same things as a monkey...

~ Milorad Pavić

Milorad Pavić Reading

Houses are like books: so many of them around you, yet you only look at a few and visit or reside in fewer still.

~ Milorad Pavić

Milorad Pavić Novel Story
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