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“-از کدام سال می‌آید این حزن؟
-از سال‌های بی‌انتهای فلسطینی
و همۀ ماه‌ها به هم شبیه‌اند، به مانند مرگ
و آن‌چه نقشه‌ها یا رسوم یا نغمه‌ها از وطن به دوش می‌کشند
جز مقبره‌هاشان نیست”
― محمود درویش

“I'd rather sing one wild song and burst my heart with it, than live a thousand years watching my digestion and being afraid of the wet.”
― Jack London, The Turtles of Tasman

“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown”
― H.P. Lovecraft, Supernatural Horror in Literature

“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of the infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.”
― H. P. Lovercraft, The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories

“The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.”
― H. P. Lovecraft

“If I am mad, it is mercy! May the gods pity the man who in his callousness can remain sane to the hideous end!”
― H.P. Lovecraft, The Temple

“I have seen the dark universe yawning
Where the black planets roll without aim,
Where they roll in their horror unheeded,
Without knowledge, or lustre, or name.”
― H. P. Lovecraft, Nemesis

“بالاترين حد آزادى من زمانى ست كه من از فلسطين آزاد شده باشم، اما من از فلسطين آزاد نمى شوم تا زمانى كه فلسطين آزاد نشده باشد.”
― محمود درویش

“در شعر، هيچ غريبه‌اى نيست. شعر ميهن غريب‌ها است. ميهنى كه ديگر در آن غريب نيستند.”
― محمود درویش

“فلسطینی، چشمان توست!
فلسطینی، نام توست!
رؤیای تو فلسطینی،
اندوه تو فلسطینی،
روسری تو فلسطینی،
تن تو فلسطینی،
پاهای تو فلسطینی،
سکوت تو و واژه‌های تو فلسطینی،
صدای تو فلسطینی،
تولد تو و مرگ تو فلسطینی.

تو را در دفاتر قدیمی‌ام با خود می‌برم
تا آتشی باشی بر اشعارم
و توشه‌ای برای سفرهایم”
― محمود درویش

“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“خبرت هست
که بی روی تو
آرامم نیست”
― سعدی

“Everything will turn out right, the world is built on that.”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

“Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader and the Imagination

“جای مردان سیاست بنشانید درخت / تا هوا تازه شود”
― سهراب سپهری

“مردمي هم هستند كه در انتظار هيچ به سر مي‌برند.”
― هاینریش بل

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

“Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.”
― Frank Zappa

“But would you kindly ponder this question: What would your good do if
evil didn't exist, and what would the earth look like if all the shadows
disappeared? After all, shadows are cast by things and people. Here is the
shadow of my sword. But shadows also come from trees and living beings.
Do you want to strip the earth of all trees and living things just because
of your fantasy of enjoying naked light? You're stupid.”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

“Follow me, reader! Who told you that there is no true, faithful, eternal love in this world! May the liar's vile tongue be cut out! Follow me, my reader, and me alone, and I will show you such a love!”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

“Just like a murderer jumps out of nowhere in an alley, love jumped out in front of us and struck us both at once”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

“Cowardice is the most terrible of vices.”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

“Punch a man on the nose, kick an old man downstairs, shoot somebody or any old thing like that, that’s my job. But argue with women in love—no thank you!”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

“Actually, I do happen to resemble a hallucination. Kindly note my silhouette in the moonlight." The cat climbed into the shaft of moonlight and wanted to keep talking but was asked to be quiet. "Very well, I shall be silent," he replied, "I shall be a silent hallucination.”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

“Once upon a time, I dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither, to all intents and purposes a butterfly. I was conscious only of my happiness as a butterfly, unaware that I was myself. Soon I awaked, and there I was, veritably myself again. Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly, dreaming I am a man.”
― Zhuangzi, The Butterfly as Companion: Meditations on the First Three Chapters of the Chuang Tzu

“Et Eärello Endorenna utúlien. Sinome maruvan ar Hildinyar tenn’ Ambar-metta!”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

“To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.”
― T.S. Eliot, The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism

“If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it.”
― Frank Zappa

“مانده از شب‌های دورادور
بر مسير خامش جنگل
سنگ‌چينی از اجاقی خرد،
اندرو خاكستر سردی.
همچنان كاندر غباراندوده‌ی انديشه‌های من ملال‌انگيز
طرح تصويری درآن هر چيز
داستانی حاصلش دردی.”
― نیما یوشیج