When we read, it is not ours to absorb all that is written. Our thoughts are jealous and they constantly blank out the thoughts of others, for there …

- Milorad Pavić

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

In the direction that your fear is growing, you're on the right path.

- Milorad Pavić

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 s…

- Milorad Pavić

Unfortunate and wretched are those who have respected a book they did not love and hated those they did.

- Milorad Pavić