"Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone."
— Octavio Paz

"It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not."
— André Gide

"Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason."
— André Gide

"To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says,but to go off with him and travel in his company."
— André Gide

"شك دارم به ترانه اي كه زنداني و زندانبان همزمان ميخوانند"
— حسين پناهي

"Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves."
— Milan Kundera (The Unbearable Lightness of Being)

"هرچه قضاوت دیگران درباره من سخت بوده باشد نمیدانند که من بیشتر خودم را سخت قضاوت کرده ام"
— Sadegh Hedayat

"اگر زندگانی سپری نمی شد چقدر تلخ و ترسناک بود."
— Sadegh Hedayat

"Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it."
— Jacques Prévert

"Only mystery allows us to live, only mystery."
— Federico García Lorca

"The artist, and particularly the poet, is always an anarchist in the best sense of the word. He must heed only the call that arises within him from three strong voices: the voice of death, with all its foreboding, the voice of love and the voice of art."
— Federico García Lorca

"...Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but...life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves."
— Gabriel García Márquez

"Life is not what one lived, but what One remembers and how One remembers it in order to recount it"
— Gabriel García Márquez

"It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams."
— Gabriel García Márquez

"Nothing resembles a person as much as the way he dies."
— Gabriel García Márquez (Love in the Time of Cholera)

"What wisdom can you find greater than kindness."
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"When you really want something to happen, the whole universe conspires so that your wish comes true."
— Paulo Coelho

"I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about."
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself."
— Paulo Coelho (Eleven Minutes: A Novel)

"Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realise that nothing really belongs to them."
— Paulo Coelho

"I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life."
— Paulo Coelho (Eleven Minutes: A Novel)

"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."
— Mahatma Gandhi

"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win."
— Mahatma Gandhi

"God has no religion."
— Mahatma Gandhi

"There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread."
— Mahatma Gandhi

"To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest."
— Mahatma Gandhi

"Your beliefs become your thoughts,
Your thoughts become your words,
Your words become your actions,
Your actions become your habits,
Your habits become your values,
Your values become your destiny."
— Mahatma Gandhi

"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."
— Mahatma Gandhi

"My Life is My Message"
— Mahatma Gandhi

"To play without passion is inexcusable!"
— Ludwig van Beethoven

"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
— Albert Einstein

"If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself."
— Albert Einstein

"The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking."
— Albert Einstein

"A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it."
— Albert Einstein

"A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."
— Albert Einstein

"If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music."
— Albert Einstein

"این روزها که می گذرد
شادم
زیرا
یک سطر در میان
آزادم
و می توانم
هر طور و هر کجا که دلم خواست
جولان دهم
_ در میان این دو خط"
— قيصر امين‌پور / Gheysar Amin Pour

"Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be."
— Shel Silverstein

"I don't believe that there are dangerous writers: the danger of certain books is not in the books themselves but in the passions of their readers."
— Octavio Paz (An Erotic Beyond: Sade)

"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it."
— Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
and rightdoing there is a field.
I'll meet you there.

When the soul lies down in that grass
the world is too full to talk about."
— Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

"A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die."
— Franz Kafka

"All language is but a poor translation."
— Franz Kafka

"By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired."
— Franz Kafka

"Paths are made by walking"
— Franz Kafka

"I am free and that is why I am lost."
— Franz Kafka

"I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go."
— Langston Hughes

"What happens to a dream deferred? / Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?"
— Langston Hughes

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گلایل را دوست دارم

به خاطر قلبش

که از پس برگ های لطیفش پیداست.



دل آدمی پیدا نیست

و سر انگشتانت را سیاه می کند چون گردو

اگر بگشایی

و ببینی.
"
— شمس لنگـرودی / Shams Langroodi

"شب مرگش
كوتاه ترين شب عمرش بود
در انديشه دوباره زيستن
مي سوخت دست خون آلودش از درد
عذابش مي داد سنگيني جسمش
مي ناليد از ناتواني
سخت در هراس بود
ناگه بنا كرد به لبخند زدن
همدمي نداشت
ميان ميليون ها كس
انديشيد كه از او انتقام مي گيرند
و خورشيد به خاطر او بالا مي آيد"
— Paul Eluard