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If they destroy here, then somewhere else someone else is building. Surely there are still peaceful countries and men of good sense who know of God's love?
The Bridge on the Drina (1945)
The town owed its existence to the bridge and grew out of it as if from an imperishable root.
The Bridge on the Drina (1945)
From everything that man erects and builds in his urge for living nothing is in my eyes better and more valuable than bridges.
For the greater part of its course the river Drina flows through narrow gorges between steep mountains or through deep ravines with precipitous banks.
The Bridge on the Drina (1945)
The bridge remained as if under sentence of death, but none the less still whole and untouched, between the two warring sides.
The Bridge on the Drina (1945)
Men who had been leaders in the commercial quarter for forty years vanished overnight as if they had all died suddenly, together with the habits, customs and institutions which they represented.
The Bridge on the Drina (1945)
Whenever a government feels the need of promising peace and prosperity to its citizens by means of a proclamation, it is time to be on guard and expect the opposite.
The Bridge on the Drina (1945)
The people were divided into the persecuted and those who persecuted them. That wild beast, which lives in man and does not dare to show itself until the barriers of law and custom have been removed, was now set free.
The Bridge on the Drina (1945)
For a man filled with a great, true and unselfish love, even if it be on one side only, there open horizons and possibilities and paths which are closed and unknown to so many clever, ambitious and selfish men.
The Bridge on the Drina (1945)
There are no buildings that have been built by chance, remote from the human society where they have grown and its needs, hopes and understandings, even as there are no arbitrary lines and motiveless forms in the work of the masons.
The Bridge on the Drina (1945)
Lost in his thoughts he looked out from his shop at the shining loveliness of that first day of March. Opposite him, a little to the side, stood the eternal bridge, everlastingly the same; through its white arches could be seen the green, sparkling, tumultous waters of the Drina, so that they seemed like some strange diadem in two colours which sparkled in the sun.
The Bridge on the Drina (1945)
The town and its outskirts were only the settlements which always and inevitably grow up around an important centre of communications and on either side of great and important bridges.
Here also in time the houses crowded together and the settlements multiplied at both ends of the bridge. The town owed its existence to the bridge and grew out of it as if from an imperishable root.
The Bridge on the Drina (1945)