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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.

— Ivo Andrić The Bridge on the Drina (1945)

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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?

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