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“History! Read it and weep!”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle

“How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

“True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Welcome to the Monkey House

“Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“خرمگس به ناگهان دست هایش را با حرکتی پرشور از هم گشود و گفت
آیا هرگز با خود فکر نکرده اید که این گوژپشت بینوا هم انسان است و روح دارد؟ یک روح زنده که تلاش می کند ولی با این وضع و حال، اسیر این پیکر خمیده شده و ناگزیر به بندگی است؟ شما که نسبت به هر چیزی این قدر حساس و نازک دل هستید؟ شما که دلتان به حال جسمی در لباس احمق ها می سوزد ، هرگز به روح بدبختی که حتی آن لباس رنگارنگ را ندارد که برهنگی وحشتناکس را بپوشاند فکر کرده اید؟ شما به روحی بیاندیشید که از سرما می لرزد و از شرم و بدبختی در برابر آن همه انسان خفه می شود. او ریشخندهای مردم را که مانند تازیانه ای به وجودش می خورد
حس میکند و خنده هایشان را که مثل آهن تفته ای تن سوز است لمس می کند!
بله، شما به روحی به انسانی بیندیشید که دربرابر چشم آنان با درماندگی نگران کوه ها است که بر او فرو نمی ریزند. نگران صخره هاست که پنهانش نمی کنند و سرانجام به موش هایی که می توانند خود را درون سوراخی پنهان کنند،
رشک می برد این را هم فراموش نکنید که روح لال است. صدایی ندارد که فریاد برآورد، باید تحمل کند و باز هم تحمل و باز هم تحمل...”
― Ethel Lilian Voynich, خرمگس

“And so it goes...”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“تا تو در یاد منی باد جهانی بر باد”
― معینی کرمانشاهی, خورشید شب

“I am a cage, in search of a bird.”
― Franz Kafka

“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

“It is said that Deucalion and Pyrrha created men by throwing stones over their heads behind them:—”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

“Maybe...you'll fall in love with me all over again."
"Hell," I said, "I love you enough now. What do you want to do? Ruin me?"
"Yes. I want to ruin you."
"Good," I said. "That's what I want too.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

“I read in the Gulistan, or Flower Garden, of Sheik Sadi of Shiraz, that "they asked a wise man, saying: Of the many celebrated trees which the Most High God has created lofty and umbrageous, they call none azad, or free, excepting the cypress, which bears no fruit; what mystery is there in this? He replied, Each has its appropriate produce, and appointed season, during the continuance of which it is fresh and blooming, and during their absence dry and withered; to neither of which states is the cypress exposed, being always flourishing; and of this nature are the azads, or religious independents.—Fix not thy heart on that which is transitory; for the Dijlah, or Tigris, will continue to flow through Bagdad after the race of caliphs is extinct: if thy hand has plenty, be liberal as the date tree; but if it affords nothing to give away, be an azad, or free man, like the cypress.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

“There were times when I could not afford to sacrifice the bloom of the present moment to any work, whether of the head or hands.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

“It would be better if there were but one inhabitant to a square mile, as where I live. The value of a man is not in his skin, that we should touch him.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

“I was never molested by any person but those who represented the State.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

“My Muse may be excused if she is silent henceforth. How can you expect the birds to sing when their groves are cut down?”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

“In the beginning was the Word. Then came the fucking word processor. Then came the thought processor. Then came the death of literature. And so it goes.”
― Dan Simmons, Hyperion

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made. Our times are in his hand who saith, 'A whole I planned, youth shows but half; Trust God: See all, nor be afraid!”
― Robert Browning

“The fish trap exists because of the fish. Once you've gotten the fish you can forget the trap. The rabbit snare exists because of the rabbit. Once you've gotten the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words exist because of meaning. Once you've gotten the meaning, you can forget the words. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so I can talk with him?”
― Zhuangzi, Chuang Tsu: Inner Chapters