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“For the sake of a few lines one must see many cities, men and things. One must know the animals, one must feel how the birds fly and know the gesture with which the small flowers open in the morning. One must be able to think back to roads in unknown regions, to unexpected meetings and to partings which one had long seen coming; to days of childhood that are still unexplained, to parents that one had to hurt when they brought one some joy and one did not grasp it (it was joy for someone else); to childhood illness that so strangely began with a number of profound and grave transformations, to days in rooms withdrawn and quiet and to mornings by the sea, to the sea itself, to seas, to nights of travel that rushed along on high and flew with all the stars-and it is not enough if one may think all of this. One must have memories of many nights of love, none of which was like the others, of the screams of women in labor, and of light, white, sleeping women in childbed, closing again. But one must also have been beside the dying, one must have sat beside the dead in the room with the open window and the fitful noises. And still it is not enough to have memories. One must be able to forget them when they are many, and one must have the great patience to wait until they come again. For it is not yet the memories themselves. Not until they have turned to blood within us, to glance, to gesture, nameless and no longer to be distinguished from ourselves-not until then can it happen that in a most rare hour the first word of a verse arises in their midst and goes forth from them.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge

“In his extreme youth Stoner had thought of love as an absolute state of being to which, if one were lucky, one might find access; in his maturity he had decided it was the heaven of a false religion, toward which one ought to gaze with an amused disbelief, a gently familiar contempt, and an embarrassed nostalgia. Now in his middle age he began to know that it was neither a state of grace nor an illusion; he saw it as a human act of becoming, a condition that was invented and modified moment by moment and day by day, by the will and the intelligence and the heart.”
― John Williams, Stoner

“Fear is more human than bravery, you’re scared and you’re sorry, at least for yourself, but you force your fear back into your subconscious.”
― Svetlana Alexievich, Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War

“فى قاموسى الكافر، ثمة كلمة واحدة مقدسـة: الصداقة”
― Milan Kundera, La festa dell'insignificanza

“الكائن الانسانى ليس إلا شعـورًا بالوحـدة.”
― Milan Kundera, La festa dell'insignificanza

“فشعر عندها فجأة برغبة غامضة لا تقاوم في سماع موسيقى هائلة، في سماع ضجيج مطلق وصخب جميل وفرح يكتنف كل شيء ويُغرق ويخنق كل شيء، فيختفي إلى الأبد الألم والغرور وتفاهة الكلمات.”
― ميلان كونديرا, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“إن ألمنا الشخصي ليس أثقل من الألم الذي نعانيه مع الآخر و من أجل الآخر و في مكان الآخر،ألم يضاعفه الخيال و ترجعه مئات الأصداء”
― ميلان كونديرا, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“الحياة الانسانية لاتحدث إلا مرة واحدة ، ولن يكون في وسعنا أبدا أن نتحقق أي قرار هو الجيد وأي قرار هو السيء، لأننا في كل الحالات لا يمكننا إلا أن نقرر مرة واحدة .. لأنه لم تعط لنا حياة ثانية أو ثالثة أو رابعة حتى نستطيع أن نقارن بين قرارات مختلفة .”
― ميلان كونديرا, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“One of the easiest things in life is to judge others. One of the simplest things we can ever do is to tell how wrong people are. One of the most thoughtless things we can ever do is to show people their faults unconstructively. It is always so easy and common to do such things but, before you do that, find the uncommon reasons for the faulty life.Yes! before you do that, identify how to correct a faulty life and before you do that, think of what drives and invokes the joy, slothfulness or the melancholy in people. Until you go through what people have been through, until you experience what has become a part of people, until you understand what drives the real interest of people and until you become fully aware of the real vision, aspirations, desires and the needs of others, ponder before you criticize!”
― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“أنا لست "جديراً بالحب" ولا "لطيفاً" ولا "ودودا"، على العكس تماما، أنا مخلوق مغرور، ومتعجرف، ومُدّعي معرفة، وغير مثير للإعجاب.”
― وجيه غالي, Beer in the Snooker Club

“لا يمكن للإنسان أبداً أن يدرك ماذا عليه أن يفعل، لأنه لا يملك إلا حياة واحدة، لا يسعه مقارنتها بِحَيوات سابقة ولا إصلاحها في حيوات لاحقة.”
― ميلان كونديرا, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“We’re the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War’s a spiritual war… our Great Depression is our lives. We’ve all been raised on television to believe that one day we’d all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won’t. And we’re slowly learning that fact. And we’re very, very pissed off.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“قال في نفسه إنه ليس من الصعب التعلّق بشخص متألّق، كامل و أنيق : فهذا النوع من الحب ليس سوى رد فعل تافه يولده فينا الجمال آليًا و صدفة.
أما الحب الصادق، فيجنح إلى خلق المحبوب انطلاقًا من كائن ناقص، كائن ناقص بمقدار ما هو إنساني.”
― ميلان كونديرا, Life is Elsewhere

“قال رامون: أجل، هذه هى الحال. يتلاقى الناس فى الحياة، يثرثرون ويتناقشون ويتشاجرون دون أن يدركوا أنهم يخاطبون بعضهم بعضًا من بعيد، كل واحد من مرصد ينتصب فى موقع مختلف من الزمن”
― Milan Kundera, Edward And God

“My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.”
― Woody Allen

“الضمير هو ترف بالنسبة الى جندي”
― Svetlana Alexievich, Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War

“الرجال يقاتلون في الحرب، أما النساء فبعدها”
― Svetlana Alexievich, Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War

“In his forty-third year William Stoner learned what others, much younger, had learned before him: that the person one loves at first is not the person one loves at last, and that love is not an end but a process through which one person attempts to know another.”
― John Williams, Stoner

“Sometimes, immersed in his books, there would come to him the awareness of all that he did not know, of all that he had not read; and the serenity for which he labored was shattered as he realized the little time he had in life to read so much, to learn what he had to know.”
― John Williams, Stoner

“الحب هو من بين أكثر الأمراض قتلاً ونشراً للعدوى. نحن، المصابين به، يمكن أن يتحقق منا أي شخص. الدوائر الداكنة تحت أعيننا تظهر أننا لا ننام مطلقاً، نبقى مستيقظين ليلة بعد أخرى بسبب المعانقات أوغيابها. نعاني من حمّى مهلكة ويعترينا إلحاح لا يقاوم للتفوه بكلمات غبية.”
― إدواردو غاليانو, The Book of Embraces

“أتابع كل ما يجري في أنحاء العالم، من دون أن أكوّن رأياً واحداً عن أي شيء.”
― عزيز محمد, .الحالة الحرجة للمدعو ك

“أن تكون مترجماً مهماً أفضل من أن تكون روائياً سيئاً”
― صالح علماني

“And I despise your books, I despise wisdom and the blessings of this world. It is all worthless, fleeting, illusory, and deceptive, like a mirage. You may be proud, wise, and fine, but death will wipe you off the face of the earth as though you were no more than mice burrowing under the floor, and your posterity, your history, your immortal geniuses will burn or freeze together with the earthly globe.”
― Anton Chekhov

“It is a curious thing, the death of a loved one. We all know that our time in this world is limited, and that eventually all of us will end up underneath some sheet, never to wake up. And yet it is always a surprise when it happens to someone we know. It is like walking up the stairs to your bedroom in the dark, and thinking there is one more stair than there is. Your foot falls down, through the air, and there is a sickly moment of dark surprise as you try and readjust the way you thought of things.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

“My dear,
Find what you love and let it kill you.
Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness.
Let it kill you and let it devour your remains.
For all things will kill you, both slowly and fastly, but it’s much better to be killed by a lover.
~ Falsely yours”
― Kinky Friedman

“It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It could mean mockery--isolation. Isolation is the gift. All the others are a test of your endurance, of how much you really want to do it. And, you'll do it, despite rejection and the worst odds. And it will be better than anything else you can imagine. If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It's the only good fight there is.”
― Charles Bukowski, What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire

“It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.”
― Bill Watterson

“I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.”
― Woody Allen