“For men are made for happiness, and any one who is completely happy has a right to say to himself, ‘I am doing God's will on earth.’ All the righteous, all the saints, all the holy martyrs were happy.”
― The Brothers Karamazov
― The Brothers Karamazov
“How can you be happy in this world? You have a hole in your heart. You have a gateway inside you to lands beyond the world you know. They will call you, as you grow. There can never be a time when you forget them, when you are not, in your heart, questing after something you cannot have, something you cannot even properly imagine, the lack of which will spoil your sleep and your day and your life, until you close your eyes for the final time, until your loved ones give you poison and sell you to anatomy, and even then you will die with a hole inside you, and you will wail and curse at a life ill-lived.”
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
“أصل كل معصية وغفلة وشهوة الرضا عن النفس، وأصل كل طاعة ويقظة وعفة عدم الرضا عنها، لأن تصحب جاهلا لا يرضى عن نفسه خير لك من أن تصحب عالما يرضى عن نفسه
فأى علم لعالم يرضى عن نفسه؟ وأى جهل لجاهل لا يرضى عن نفسه "؟”
― الجانب العاطفي من الإسلام
فأى علم لعالم يرضى عن نفسه؟ وأى جهل لجاهل لا يرضى عن نفسه "؟”
― الجانب العاطفي من الإسلام
“But he asked himself now if he would not be disobeying God. And does not God permit love, since He surrounds it with such visible splendor?”
― The Complete Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant, Part One
― The Complete Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant, Part One
“Success for a woman means absolute surrender, in whatever direction. Whether she paints a picture, or loves a man, there is no division of labor possible in her economy. To the attainment of any end worth living for, a symmetrical sacrifice of her nature is compulsory upon her.”
― The Story of Avis
― The Story of Avis
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