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#1

“!لك شيء في هذا العالم.. فقم”
― غسان كنفاني

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#2

“حذارِ من المفكرين الذين لا تعمل عقولهم إلا انطلاقًا من الاقتباس”
― إميل سيوران

tags: لو-كان-آدم-سعيد-ا

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#3

“This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn't turn out to be like Literature.”
― Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending

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“What you end up remembering isn't always the same as what you have witnessed.”
― Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending

tags: memory, nostalgia

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“I had wanted life not to bother me too much, and had succeeded—and how pitiful that was.”
― Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending

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#6

“A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.”
― Joseph Stalin

tags: death, humanity, life, media, statistics, tragedy

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#7

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

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#8

“When the Gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.”
― Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband

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#9

“You are Beautiful when you are happy”
― Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband

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#10

“A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.”
― Henry Miller, The Books in My Life

tags: books, power

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#11

“Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.”
― Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance

tags: clock, future, past, possibilities, ticking, time

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#12

“People leave traces of themselves where they feel most comfortable, most worthwhile.”
― Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance

tags: connection, love, memories, nostalgia

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#13

“A lot of people lacked that gift: knowing when to fuck off.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

tags: fuck-off

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#14

“My gosh, Nick, why are you so wonderful to me?'

He was supposed to say: You deserve it. I love you.

But he said, 'Because I feel sorry for you.'

'Why?'

'Because every morning you have to wake up and be you.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

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#15

“The truly frightening flaw in humanity is our capacity for cruelty - we all have it.”
― Gillian Flynn, Dark Places

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#16

“Draw a picture of my soul, and it’d be a scribble with fangs.”
― Gillian Flynn, Dark Places

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#17

“If ifs and buts were candies and nuts we’d all have a very Merry Christmas,”
― Gillian Flynn, Dark Places

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#18

“What kind of woman gets slaughtered by her own son?”
― Gillian Flynn, Dark Places

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#19

“When you are in a hole, the top priority is to stop digging.”
― William Easterly, The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good

tags: policy, politics

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#20

“He that loves pleasure must for pleasure fall.”
― Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus

tags: fall, pleasure

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#21

“What art thou Faustus, but a man condemned to die?”
― Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus

tags: doctors, faustus, tragedy

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#22

“I’m playing at real life instead of actually living it.”
― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

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#23

“It's impossible to resist the kindness of strangers.”
― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

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#24

“It’s not even rejection, it’s dismissal.”
― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

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#25

“So who do I want to be tomorrow?”
― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

tags: identity

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#26

“I feel a rush of gratitude so strong, it feels almost like love.”
― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

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#27

“Those who know don't tell and those who tell don't know.”
― Michael Lewis, Liar's Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street

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#28

“In the land of the blind the one-eyed man is king”
― Michael Lewis, Liar's Poker

tags: life

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#29

“Warren Buffett is fond of saying that any player unaware of the fool in the market probably is the fool in the market.”
― Michael Lewis, Liar's Poker

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#30

“They carried the sky. The whole atmosphere, they carried it, the humidity, the monsoons, the stink of fungus and decay, all of it, they carried gravity.”
― Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried

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