Ivo Andric
Overview
 
Ivan "Ivo" Andrić (October 9, 1892 – March 13, 1975) was a Yugoslav
Yugoslavs
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 novelist, short story writer, and the 1961 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
Nobel Prize in Literature
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. His writings dealt mainly with life in his native Bosnia
Bosnia Eyalet
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 under the Ottoman Empire
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. His native house in Travnik
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Travnik is a city and municipality in central Bosnia and Herzegovina, 90 km west of Sarajevo. It is the capital of the Central Bosnia Canton, and is located in the Travnik Municipality. Travnik today has some 27,000 residents, with a metro population that is probably close to 70,000 people...

 has been transformed into a Museum, and his Belgrade
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 flat on Andrićev Venac
Andricev Venac
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 hosts the Museum of Ivo Andrić
Museum of Ivo Andrić
The Museum of Ivo Andrić is a museum in Belgrade, Serbia. It is dedicated to the Nobel prize winning writer Ivo Andrić....

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Ivan Andrić was born on October 9, 1892, to a Roman Catholic family of Croatian
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 parentage, in Travnik, Bosnia and Herzegovina
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, then part of the Ottoman Empire
Ottoman Empire
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, under control of Austria-Hungary
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Quotations

From everything that man erects and builds in his urge for living nothing is in my eyes better and more valuable than bridges. They are more important than houses, more sacred than shrines. Belonging to everyone and being equal to everyone, useful, always built with a sense, on the spot where most human needs are crossing, they are more durable than other buildings and they do not serve for anything secret or bad.

If people would know how little brain is ruling the world, they would die of fear.

One shouldn't be afraid of the humans.Well, I am not afraid of the humans, but of what is inhuman in them.

What can and doesn't have to be always, at the end, surrenders to something that has to be.

What doesn't hurt - is not life; what doesn't pass - is not happiness.

When I am not desperate, I am worthless.

What does your sorrow do while you sleep? -It’s awake and waiting. And when it loses patience, it wakes me up.

And then the death will come. The great parting, but the least painful of all the goodbyes we ever knew. For in death, only one shall grieve. And so far we have always, at every parting, grieved together.

I do not fear invisible worlds.

It seems to me, that if people only knew how hard it was for me to endure life, they would find it easier to forgive me for all the wrong things I’ve done and all the good things that I have failed to do. And they would still find a little compassion within them to pity me.

 
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