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Ivo Andric

b: Travnik, Yugoslavia, Oct 10, 1892

d: Belgrade, Yugoslavia, Mar 13, 1975

Yugolav. Author. Wrote epic trilogy of Slavic Balkavis Bridge on the Driva, 1959; won Nobel Prize for literature, 1961.

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Between the fear that something would happen and the hope that still it wouldn't, there is much more space than one thinks. On that narrow, hard, bare and dark space a lot of us spend their lives.

Sadness is also a kind of defence.