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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?

— Ivo Andrić The Bridge on the Drina (1945)

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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)

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