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#1

“I go to seek a Great Perhaps.”
― François Rabelais

tags: death, french-renaissance-writer, john-green, last-words, life, looking-for-alaska, meaning-of-life, miles-halter

#2

“When I look at small things, I think I shall go on living: drops of rain, leather gloves shrunk by being wet...When I look at something too big, I want to die: the Diet Building, or a map of the world...”
― Kobo Abe, The Box Man

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#3

“A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.”
― Franz Kafka

tags: absurd

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#4

“Remembering is only a new form of suffering.”
― Charles Baudelaire

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#5

“The vitality of a culture is in its capacity to assimilate foreign influences. The culture that's defensive and closed condemns itself to decadence.”
― Juan Goytisolo

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#6

“I've always rejected being understood. To be understood is to prostitute oneself. I prefer to be taken seriously for what I'm not, remaining humanly unknown, with naturalness and all due respect”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

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#7

“The past is never dead. It's not even past.”
― William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun

tags: past, time

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#8

“ لا غايةَ لي، أسيرُ و حسب ”
― بسام حجار, مجرد تعب

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#9

“One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.”
― Charles Baudelaire, Paris Spleen

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#10

“I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.”
― Charles Baudelaire

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#11

“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.”
― William Faulkner

tags: advocacy, dissent, protest, truth, truth-telling

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#12

“A good book is an event in my life.”
― Stendhal, The Red and the Black

tags: books, literature, reading

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#13

“Man is a genius when he is dreaming.”
― Akira Kurosawa

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#14

“ فأومأتُ للسراب وأعلم أن ماء السراب كاذبٌ، وحملت البئرَ التي جفَّ ماؤها في داخلي وكنت كلما أحببتُ أحداً أقع فيها. ويوسف لم يكن اسمي ”
― بسام حجار, مجرد تعب

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#15

“العابرون سريعًا جميلون. لا يتركون ثقلَ ظلّ. ربما غبارًا قليلاً، سرعان ما يختفي”
― وديع سعادة

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#16

“عندما أكتب؛ أغرق !”
― جبرا إبراهيم جبرا, يوميات سراب عفان

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#17

“أنا مَن أهوى ومَن أهوى أنا نحن روحان ِحَلَلْـنا بدنا
فـإذا أبصرتـَني أبصرتـَهُ و إذا أبصرتـَهُ أبصرتـَنـا”
― الحسين بن منصور الحلاج

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#18

“الحكاية أَن لا حكاية
تلك التي قالها القبطان كانت خرافة
كي يسلِّي المسافرين في المحيط المديد
والحكايةُ الأخرى كانت خرافة أيضاً
كي يسلِّي الذين يغرقون.

الحكاية أنْ لا أحد في البستان
ولا أحد في الخيمة
ومن كان ينام ويزرع كان خيالاً
لا خيمة ولا بستان لكنْ قيل ذلك
كي يظنَّ الشجر أنَّ له ظلاً
ويظنّ التراب
أنَّه أُمّ.

الحكاية أَنْ لا أُمَّ
ولا قبطان ولا مركب ولا ظِلَّ
ولا حكاية.”
― وديع سعادة

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#19

“There is no was.”
― William Faulkner

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#20

“I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it.”
― William Faulkner

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#21

“Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.”
― Anne Sexton

tags: living, soul

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#22

“أعرف جيدًا أنّه ليس مؤلمًا على الإطلاق أن تقف خلف النافذة كما يفعل مَن ينتظر شيئًا ، أحدًا ما ، أو مَن يدفعه الفضولُ إلى الإطمئنان مرةً ثم أُخرى إلى أنَّ الأشياءَ في الخارج مازالتْ هناك وأنَّه لم يَمُت بعدُ لكي يفقدها”
― بسام حجار, مجرد تعب

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#23

“تنكّب الضوء أهدانى إلى العتمة، فأقمت فى مزاج اللبس والوضوح، على العتبة، عند المفترق من كل شىء”
― بسام حجار, سوف تحيا من بعدي

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#24

“ميت هو ذاك الذي لا يقلب الطاولة ولا يسمح لنفسه ولو لمرة واحدة في حياته بالهرب من النصائح المنطقية”
― بابلو نيرودا

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#25

“Soon we will be strangers. No, we can never be that. Hurting someone is an act of reluctant intimacy. We will be dangerous acquaintances with a history.”
― Hanif Kureishi, Intimacy

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#26

“Love cannot be measured by its duration...”
― Hanif Kureishi, Intimacy

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#27

“What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.”
― Salman Rushdie

tags: banned-books, censorship, free-speech, intellectual-freedom

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#28

“From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.”
― Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses

tags: dogma, extremism, fanaticism, god, inhumanity, justification, religion, zealotry

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#29

“Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.”
― Salman Rushdie

tags: rationality, rushdie, writing

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#30

“Finding is losing something else.
I think about, perhaps even mourn,
what I lost to find this”
― Richard Brautigan, Loading Mercury With a Pitchfork

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