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To live in Sarajevo is to live on different planes. This collision of the past and present lends the city a hyper-real texture, as if you are walking through a postcard come to life. To visit Sarajevo is to witness both our modern civilization’s greatest sorrows and greatest triumphs.
- Reif Larsen, writer
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You see, [the word] Sarajevo has a neuter gender. Just like a child – playful, simple, naive, gullible, childish…. That is why it is always the first to extend its hands…
- Đorđe Balašević, Serbian singer-songwriter, poet, writer and director
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Sarajevans did something beautiful. They’ve taken huge shell casings, the same ones from the ammunition used against them during the war, and they’ve carved them with pictures of how Sarajevo used to look, polished them and now they sell them. I bought a lot of them. This is the most beautiful example of how we shall overcome what has happened to us.
- Terrence Howard, actor