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“We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.”
― Oscar Wilde, Miscellaneous Aphorisms; The Soul of Man

“أرق مواساة هي مواساة النفس للنفس وأصدق عتاب هو عتاب النفس للنفس و أجمل فرحة هي فرحة النفس للنفس تصالح مع نفسك فهي من ستظل معك للأبد ومن تحبك مهما فعلت”
― ليلى المطوع

“There's a quality of legend about freaks.
Like a person in a fairy tale who stops you and demands that you answer a riddle. Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats.”
― Diane Arbus

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability.”
― H.P. Lovecraft

“The Greeks do not think correctly about coming-to-be and passing-away; for no thing comes to be or passes away, but is mixed together and dissociated from the things that are. And thus they would be correct to call coming-to-be mixing-together and passing-away dissociating”
― Anaxagoras

“فليتك تحلو والحياة مريرة
وليتك ترضى والأنام غضابُ

وليت الذي بيني وبينك عامر
وبيني وبين العالمين خرابُ

إذا صح منك الود فالكل هين
وكل الذي فوق التراب ترابُ”
― أبو فراس الحمداني

“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.”
― Robert Bloch

“Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.”
― Charles M. Schulz

“An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.”
― Aldous Huxley

“There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.”
― George Orwell

“It is a sad thing to think of, but there is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves. In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place. The thoroughly well-informed man--that is the modern ideal. And the mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-a-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“To learn to see- to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it; to defer judgment, and to acquire the habit of approaching and grasping an individual case from all sides. This is the first preparatory schooling of intellectuality. One must not respond immediately to a stimulus; one must acquire a command of the obstructing and isolating instincts.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

“Don't believe those lies about intellectual people. They're only written to soothe the majority.”
― E. M. Forster, The Longest Journey

“[If] it were possible to watch composing in the same way that one can watch painting, if composers could have _ateliers_ as did painters, then it would be clear how superfluous the music theorist is and how he is just as harmful as the art academies.”
― Arnold Schoenberg, Theory of Harmony

“The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Life of the Mind

“The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.”
― Hannah Arendt

“Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.”
― Hannah Arendt

“There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking it-self is dangerous.”
― Hannah Arendt

“لقد كنت قبل اليوم أنكر صاحبي .. إذا لم يكن ديني إلى دينه داني
لقد صارَ قلـبي قابلاً كلَ صُـورةٍ .. فـمرعىً لغـــــزلانٍ ودَيرٌ لرُهبـَــــانِ
ِوبيتٌ لأوثــانٍ وكعـــبةُ طـائـــفٍ .. وألـواحُ تـوراةٍ ومصـحفُ قــــــرآن
أديـنُ بدينِ الحــــبِ أنّى توجّـهـتْ .. ركـائـبهُ ، فالحبُّ ديـني وإيـمَاني”
― محيي الدين بن عربي, ترجمان الأشواق

“Almighty God, I am sorry I am now an atheist, but have You read Nietzsche?”
― John Fante, Ask the Dust

“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.”
― Maya Angelou

“إن العرب ليظلون يتحدثون بضجيج و إدعاء عن أمجادهم و انتصاراتهم الخطابية حتى ليذهبون يحسبون أن ما قالوه قد فعلوه ، و أنه لم يبق شيئا عظيم أو جيد لم يفعلوه لكي يفعلوه .. إن من آصل و أرسخ و أشهر مواهبم أن يعتقدوا أنهم قد فعلوا الشيء لأنهم قد تحدثوا عنه.”
― عبد الله القصيمي, العرب ظاهرة صوتية

“قد يكون تحطيمك لصنم ما، تشييد لصنم أعظم.”
― عبد الله القصيمي, عاشق لعار التاريخ

“But now it was spring again, and spring was almost unbearable for sensitive hearts. It drove creation to its utmost limits, it wafted its spice-laden breath even into the nostrils of the innocent.”
― Knut Hamsun, Dreamers

“سأقول لك شيئاً واحداً يا إلهي الطيّب, يكفي هذا!”
― Knut Hamsun, Hunger

“أنت فقير لدرجة لا تسمح لك بوجود الضمير, أنت جوعان”
― Knut Hamsun, Hunger

“Man sværmer om sommeren, så holder man op for den gang. Men nogen sværmer hele sitt liv og står ikke til å forandre.”
― Knut Hamsun, Dreamers

“Summer is the time for dreaming, and then you have to stop. But some people go on dreaming all their lives, and cannot change.”
― Knut Hamsun

“I think perhaps we want a more conscious life.”
― Sinclair Lewis