Neda

“The longer I live, the more uninformed I feel. Only the young have an explanation for everything.”
― Isabel Allende, City of the Beasts

“The thing is to be happy,” he said. “No matter what. Just try that. You can. It gets to be easier and easier. It’s nothing to do with circumstances. You wouldn’t believe how good it is. Accept everything and then tragedy disappears.”
― Alice Munro, Dear Life

“نه با کسی بحث کن، نه از کسی انتقاد کن.
هرکی هرچی گفت بگو حق با شماست و خودت را خلاص کن.
آدم‌ها عقیده‌ات را که می‌پرسند نظرت را نمی‌خواهند.
می‌خواهند با عقیده‌ی خودشان موافقت کنی.
بحث کردن با آدمها بی‌فایده است.”
― زویا پیرزاد, چراغ‌ها را من خاموش می‌کنم

“The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's weak points but from his good qualities. Do you know what I'm getting at? People are drawn deeper into tragedy not by their defects but by their virtues. Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex being a great example. Oedipus is drawn into tragedy not because of laziness or stupidity, but because of his courage and honesty. So an inevitable irony results.
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[But] we accept irony through a device called metaphor. And through that we grow and become deeper human beings.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore