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Miroslav Krleža Quotes

1893–1981 Croatia

Miroslav Krleža (7 July 1893 – 29 December 1981) was a Yugoslav and Croatian writer who is widely considered to be the greatest Croatian writer of the 20th century. He wrote notable works in all the literary genres, including poetry (Ballads of Petrica Kerempuh, 1936), theater (Messrs.

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When a scientific principle puts on the toga of social dignity, it turns itself into a bell or a parrot; such phantoms have always been the most dangerous enemies of reason.

Ever more alone, ever madder, remoter, sadder alone,
ever darker, ever baser, as it awfuls more and more. Ever colder, ever viler, ever icier,
autumn's lonely void, as it autumns more and more.

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