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The Flash by Geoff Johns, Book One

by Geoff Johns

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Mar 19, 2025 04:13PM

“Of course, weakness is strong. It’s the primary impulse. You’d probably prefer to sit in your little room and cry. Live in your finite collection of memories, carefully polishing each one. Half a life set behind glass and pinned to cardboard like a collection of exotic insects. You’d like to live behind that glass, wouldn’t you?”
― Jonathan Nolan, Memento Mori

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“ما جدوى أن يتزوج الشقاء من التعاسة ؟.. الهباب من الطين ؟..
ما الجديد الذى سنقدمه للعالم سوى المزيد من البؤس ؟”
― أحمد خالد توفيق, يوتوبيا

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“إن الحياة نفسها أكثر جرأة وأجمح خيالاً من الفنان...في الطبيعة يمكن أن يسقط نيزك من الفضاء الخارجي ليقتل الشرير،بينما لا يمكن ان يكتب الأديب ذلك وهو بكامل قواه العقلية....في الطبيعة يمكن لأمريكا ان تلقي قنبلة ذرية على مدينة سكنية عادية لمجرد انها تريد تجربتها بينما لا يجسر أديب مجنون على تخيل ذلك”
― أحمد خالد توفيق, حب في أغسطس

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“Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost

tags: death

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“Do you know why books such as this are so important? Because they have quality. And what does the word quality mean? To me it means texture. This book has pores. It has features. This book can go under the microscope. You’d find life under the glass, streaming past in infinite profusion. The more pores, the more truthfully recorded details of life per square inch you can get on a sheet of paper, the more ‘literary’ you are. That’s my definition anyway. Telling detail. Fresh detail. The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies. So now you see why books are hated and feared? They show the pores in the face of life.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

tags: books, life, literature, reading

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