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“The purpose of the poetry is not to dazzle us with an astonishing thought, but to make one moment of existence unforgettable and worthy of unbearable nostalgia.”
― Milan Kundera, Immortality

“So much have we lost touch with 'real life' that we occasionally feel a kind of disgust for it and so can't bear to be reminded of it. For we have arrived at the point where we look on 'real life' as toil, almost as compulsory service, and all of us privately agree that 'life' as we find it in book is better.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground

“إننا نغفر ما نفهمه....نغفره دائما تقريبا.”
― Mikhail Lermontov, A Hero of Our Time

“ما رأيت في حياتي امرأة مثلها، أبدا.. لم تكن جميلة، ولكن لي في الجمال آرائي، إنها أصيلة العرق.. وأصالة العرق هذه هي الشيء الهام في النساء كما في الخيول جميعا.. تلك حقيقة يرجع الفضل في اكتشافها إلى فرنسا الفتية، وهي تتجلى - أعني أصالة العرق لا فرنسا الفتية - في المشية واليدين والساقين، وفي الأنف على وجه الخصوص. إن الأنف المستقيم أندر في روسيا من قدم صغيرة.”
― Mikhail Lermontov, A Hero of Our Time

“يجب أن نعترف للنساء بهذه الميزة، وهي أنهن يدركن جمال النفس بالغريزة.”
― Mikhail Lermontov, A Hero of Our Time

“ثمة شيء أدهشني دائماً، وهو أنني لم أكن يوم من الأيام عبداً للنساء اللواتي أحببتهن، بالعكس، كنت أسيطر على إرادتهن وعلى قلوبهن سيطرة لا سبيل لهن إلى دفعها، دون أن أفعل من أجل ذلك شيئاً .. أيرجع هذا إلى أني لا أحرص على أي شيء حرصاً عميقاً ؟!”
― Mikhail Lermontov, A Hero of Our Time

“يدق قلبي كأنه مطرقة! آه, أريد أن أراها لحظة, لحظة واحدة, أن أودعها أن أشد علي يدها !.. كنت أصلي, وألعن, وأبكي وأضحك...لا, لا, لا شيء يمكن أن يعبر عما كنت أكابده من غم وخوف ويأس.”
― ميخائيل ليرمنتوف, A Hero of Our Time

“Being free always involves being lonely.”
― Kōbō Abe

“كان يحبها كثيرا ولكنه كان يكره ذلك الافراط السخيف في إظهار المشاعر كان يكره تلك العواطف التي تشبه عواطف العجول”
― دستويفسكي, الإخوة كارامزوف

“یحدث أحیاناً أن نلتقي بأشخاص نجھلھم تمام الجھل ومع ذلك نشعر باھتمام بھم وبدافع یقربنا منھم قبل أن نبادلھم كلمھ واحدة”
― فيودور دوستويفسكي

“غدًا من الممكن أن ننتحر
الآن علينا أن نحب”
― رياض الصالح الحسين, خراب الدورة الدموية

“ الإفراط في الأمل إسراف في اليأس”
― خورخي لويس بورخيس / Jorge Luis Borges

“وأنا الذي تخيلت الجنّة : من نوع المكتبة ..”
― خورخي لويس بورخيس / Jorge Luis Borges

“انس من أنت، انس الآخر الذي كنته. انس من كنت في الأراضي التي منحتك صُبحها ومساءها _ ولن تمنحها حنينك.”
― خورخي لويس بورخيس / Jorge Luis Borges

“كتبي ( وهي لاتعرف أني موجود )
هي جزء مني مثل الوجه ،
بصدغيه الأشيبين وزوج من عيون رمادية ،
أبحث عنهما ‘ عبثا ً ، في عمق المرآة.
وألمسهما بتقعّر راحة اليد.
وليس بدون منطق مرّ
أظن أن الكلمات الجوهر التي تعبّر عني
تختبيء بين الصفحات التي لاتعرف من أنا ، وليس الأخرى من صفحات كتبي.
وهذا أفضل الأمور.
أما أصوات الموتى فتقول عني هذا كله على الدوام.”
― خورخي لويس بورخيس / Jorge Luis Borges

“I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“Few beautiful women were willing to indicate in public that they belonged to someone. I had known enough women to realize this. I accepted them for what they were and love came hard and very seldom. When it did it was usually for the wrong reasons. One simply became tired of holding back love and let it go because it needed some place to go. Then, usually, there was trouble.”
― Charles Bukowski, Women

“The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom...You never know what is enough until you know what is more than enough.”
― William Blake, Proverbs of Hell

“Whisky is liquid sunshine.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“Do you, good people, believe that Adam and Eve were created in the Garden of Eden and that they were forbidden to eat from the tree of knowledge? I do. The church has always been afraid of that tree. It still is afraid of knowledge. Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas. So does whiskey. I believe in the brain of man.”
― Clarence Darrow

“Never delay kissing a pretty girl or opening a bottle of whiskey.”
― Ernest Hemingway, QUOTABLE HEMINGWAY: An A to Z Glossary of Quotations from Ernest Hemingway

“Receive with simplicity everything that happens to you.”
― Rashi

“I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“بعد فترة تتعلم الفرق الواهي
بين الإمساك بيد وبين تكبيل روح،
وتتعلم أن الحب لا يعني الاتكاء
وأن الصحبة لا تعني الأمان.
وتبدأ بالتعلم أن القبل لا تعني اتفاقات مبرمة
وأن الهدايا ليست وعوداً
وتبدأ بتقبل هزائمك
مع رأسك مرفوع وعينيك مفتوحتين
بسمو إمرأة، وليس بحزن طفل،
وتتعلم بناء كل دروبك على يومك الحاضر
لأن أرض الغد غير جديرة بالثقة بالنسبة الى الخطط
بعد فترة تتعلم...
إنه حتى أشعة الشمس تحرق إذا بالغت في الاقتراب.
لذا تقوم بزرع حديقتك وتزيّن روحك
بدلاً من انتظار شخص ما ليحضر لك الزهور.
وتتعلم أنه بمقدورك حقاً الاحتمال...
انك حقاً قوي
وأنك تطوي قيمتك بداخلك...
وتتعلم وتتعلم...
مع كل وداع تتعلم.”
― خورخي لويس بورخيس

“Learning

After some time, you learn the subtle difference between
holding a hand
and imprisoning a soul;
You learn that love does not equal sex,
and that company does not equal security,
and you start to learn….
That kisses are not contracts and gifts are not promises,
and you start to accept defeat with the head up high
and open eyes,
and you learn to build all roads on today,
because the terrain of tomorrow is too insecure for plans…
and the future has its own way of falling apart in half.

And you learn that if it’s too much
even the warmth of the sun can burn.

So you plant your own garden and embellish your own soul,
instead of waiting for someone to bring flowers to you.

And you learn that you can actually bear hardship,
that you are actually strong,
and you are actually worthy,
and you learn and learn…and so every day.

Over time you learn that being with someone
because they offer you a good future,
means that sooner or later you’ll want to return to your past.

Over time you comprehend that only who is capable
of loving you with your flaws, with no intention of changing you
can bring you all happiness.

Over time you learn that if you are with a person
only to accompany your own solitude,
irremediably you’ll end up wishing not to see them again.

Over time you learn that real friends are few
and whoever doesn’t fight for them, sooner or later,
will find himself surrounded only with false friendships.

Over time you learn that words spoken in moments of anger
continue hurting throughout a lifetime.

Over time you learn that everyone can apologize,
but forgiveness is an attribute solely of great souls.

Over time you comprehend that if you have hurt a friend harshly
it is very likely that your friendship will never be the same.

Over time you realize that despite being happy with your friends,
you cry for those you let go.

Over time you realize that every experience lived,
with each person, is unrepeatable.

Over time you realize that whoever humiliates
or scorns another human being, sooner or later
will suffer the same humiliations or scorn in tenfold.

Over time you learn to build your roads on today,
because the path of tomorrow doesn’t exist.

Over time you comprehend that rushing things or forcing them to happen
causes the finale to be different form expected.

Over time you realize that in fact the best was not the future,
but the moment you were living just that instant.

Over time you will see that even when you are happy with those around you,
you’ll yearn for those who walked away.

Over time you will learn to forgive or ask for forgiveness,
say you love, say you miss, say you need,
say you want to be friends, since before
a grave, it will no longer make sense.

But unfortunately, only over time…”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche