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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 anything secret or bad.

Ivo Andrić

Whenever a government feels the need of promising peace and prosperity to its citizens by means of a proclamation, it is time to be on guard and expect the opposite.

Ivo Andrić

Ivo Andrić

Ivo Andrić

Born: October 9, 1892

Died: March 13, 1975 (aged 82)

Bio: Ivo Andrić was a Yugoslav novelist, poet and short story writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1961. His writings dealt mainly with life in his native Bosnia under Ottoman rule.

Known for:

The Bridge on the Drina (1945)
Bosnian Chronicle (1945)
The Damned Yard (1954)
The Journey of Alija Đerzelez (1920)
Znakovi pored puta

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