Aphorisms by Sabahudin Hadžialić
Posted on December 22, 2009
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Sabahudin Hadžialić is another Balkan aphorist and also deputy editor-in-chief of the online satirical weekly Zikison. Like many Balkan aphorists, Hadžialić works as a journalist. In 2009, Hadžialić published a book of aphorisms, satirical dramas, and short stories called Abecedna Azbuka. Balkan aphorisms tend to be blunt rather than surgically sharp, so that when the blade of satire passes through your mind it leaves a rough and jagged path in its wake, a path that is immediately covered over with a kind of oozing black humor.
There is only one life, but you die many times.
Forbidden fruit is sweetest, but it very rarely ripens.
Great pain is mute.
Human beings are like rivers: pure at the source and dirty at the mouth.
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It was the decade of “The Year That Changed the World” books.
The aphorism will never be an anachronism.
Its good to see the greguerias of Ramon getting a little attention. As far as I’ve been able to ascertain I am the world’s only writer of greguerias. Oddly enough they only get published by fairly prestigious magazines – Yale Review, Michigan Quarterly, The London Magazine etc. I’ve NEVER had a small or ‘alternative’ magazine show the slightest interest. There’s a lesson there somewhere.
The greguerias combine aphoristic assertiveness, the punchline ‘kick’ of a one-liner joke and above the child-like delight in metaphor.
You can’t abolish thirst but you can drink.
There is only one life to be truely lived, but then you may come back as a nutritious vegetable…
Saša, ako tako nastaviš biće od tebe Hadžialić, a jednog dana možda čak i Tumarić ili nedostižni Bapsi..