Quotes - Yasmine (bookish__girl_

#1

“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

tags: lies, love, respect, self-deception, truth

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#2

“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

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#3

“I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

tags: hell, individualism, irony, selfishness, tea

3677 likes

#4

“Maybe we all have darkness inside of us and some of us are better at dealing with it than others.”
― Jasmine Warga, My Heart and Other Black Holes

tags: depression, mental-health, sadness

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#5

“..because never in my life have I ever been picked when there was another alternative.”
― Jasmine Warga, My Heart and Other Black Holes

tags: alone, depresion, life, pain

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#6

“And this time, I can feel my hand. I can feel everything. And I want to keep feeling everything. Even the painful, awful, terrible things. Because feeling things is what lets us know that we’re alive.
And I want to be alive.”
― Jasmine Warga, My Heart and Other Black Holes

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#7

“Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.”
― Lisa See, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

tags: books, novelists, reading, storytellers, storytelling, writers, writing

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#8

“I am old enough to know only too well my good and bad qualities, which were often one in the same.”
― Lisa See, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

tags: life

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#9

“For my entire life I longed for love. I knew it was not right for me — as a girl and later as a woman — to want or expect it, but I did, and this unjustified desire has been at the root of every problem I have experienced in my life.”
― Lisa See, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

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#10

“Fifteen seconds. That’s all it takes to completely change everything about a person. Fifteen.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

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#11

“You don't fade from within my mind; it's a flaw
That I dwell on each moment, cling to you
Like smoke escaping my fingers while the candles burn them raw”
― Sreesha Divakaran, Those Imperfect Strokes

tags: candle, fire, flaw, smoke

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#12

“Anyone who has actually been that sad can tell you that there's nothing beautiful or literary or mysterious about depression.”
― Jasmine Warga, My Heart and Other Black Holes

tags: depression, mental-disorders, mental-illness, my-heart-and-other-black-holes, sadness

523 likes

#13

“What's the point of having a voice if you're gonna be silent in those moments you shouldn't be?”
― Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give

tags: black-lives-matter, racism

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#14

“Forget everything. Open the windows. Clear the room. The wind blows through it. You see only its emptiness, you search in every corner and don’t find yourself.”
― Franz Kafka, Diaries, 1910-1923

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#15

“They're talking about things of which they don't have the slightest understanding, anyway. It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.”
― Franz Kafka, The Trial

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#16

“It is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary”
― Franz Kafka, The Trial

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#17

“إننا نتعلم الأبجدية من أجل أن نقول شيئاً مختلفا عما يقوله الآخرون.. من أجل أن نقول جملة أجمل، كلمة أفضل، من أجل أن نصل لمعنى أكمل.. إننا نتعلم الأبجدية لا لنردد ماقاله الآخرون، ولكن كي نقول الصواب.. والصواب فقط.”
― أحمد خيري العمري, ألواح ودسر

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#18

“يحدث أحيانا لأن نلتقي بأشخاص نجهلهم تمام الجهل و مع ذلك نشعر باهتمام بهم و بدافع يقربنا منهم حتى قبل أن نبادلهم كلمة واحدة”
― فيودور دوستويفسكي, 8 أعمال دوستويفسكي الأدبية: الجريمة والعقاب 1 ـ المجلد

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#19

“I just want to break that song into pieces and love them all to death.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

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#20

“Do you hate people?”

“I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.”
― Charles Bukowski, Barfly

tags: humour, misanthropy, paraphrased

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#21

“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.”
― Charles Bukowski

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#22

“Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”
― Rumi

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#23

“What you seek is seeking you.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

tags: attraction, rumi, sufi

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#24

“For you, a thousand times over”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

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#25

“Not a word passes between us, not because we have nothing to say, but because we don't have to say anything”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

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#26

“وصلت صوفي إلى أن الفلسفة ليست شيئاً يمكن تعلمه، وإنما يمكن تعلم التفكير بطريقة فلسفية.”
― Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World

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#27

“Life is both sad and solemn. We are let into a wonderful world, we meet one another here, greet each other—and wander together for a brief moment. Then we lose each other and disappear as suddenly and unreasonably as we arrived.”
― Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World

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#28

“إن أكبر جريمه يمكن لأي أنسان أن يرتكبها ...كائنا من كان ..هي أن يعتقد ولو للحظه أن ضعف الآخريين و اخطاءهم هي التي تشكل حقه في الوجود على حسابهم ...وهي التي تبرر له أخطاءه و جرائمه”
― غسان كنفاني, عائد إلى حيفا

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#29

“Your hope lies in accepting your life as it now lies before you, forever changed. If you can do that, the peace you seek will follow. Forever changed. I am forever changed.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

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#30

“We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game

tags: dreaming

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