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خانه ادریسیها

by غزاله علیزاده

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"«پرتگاه انتها ندارد. مگر به فکرش نباشی.
در گریختن رستگاری نیست. بمان و چیزی از خودت بساز که نشکند.»" — Jan 24, 2025 04:03PM

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فایده‌ی انقلاب چیست اگر نتوانیم برقصیم؟

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"ترجمه‌ی پر از سکته و به شدت ناروانی داره. ولی علی‌الحساب:
«مرز میان دیده شدن و خودتبلیغ‌گری بسیار باریک است. مرز میان ترویج‌گری و خودنمایی هم باریک است.»" — Jan 09, 2025 05:23AM

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درست‌حسابی دعوا کن!: هموار کردن راه پرچالش زندگی مشترک

by Julie Schwartz Gottman

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“My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky.”
― Alan Moore

tags: life

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“If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:
THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC”
― kurt vonnegut

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“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism

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“The secret of flight is this -- you have to do it immediately, before your body realizes it is defying the laws.”
― Michael Cunningham, A Home at the End of the World

tags: flight, flying

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“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
― Voltaire

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Goodreads Librarians are volunteers who help ensure the accuracy of information about books and authors in the Goodreads' catalog. The Goodreads Libra ...more

Our Shared Shelf — 222880 members — last activity Mar 26, 2026 05:09AM
OUR SHARED SHELF IS CURRENTLY DORMANT AND NOT MANAGED BY EMMA AND HER TEAM. Dear Readers, As part of my work with UN Women, I have started reading ...more

واحه — 12 members — last activity Sep 11, 2018 01:28AM
واحه. واحه به معنی آبادی میان بیابان. نور در تاریکی. امید در منتهای ناامیدی. هر هفته دور هم جمع میشیم تا این روزگاری که جز بر وحشتمون نمی‌افزایند قدری ...more

کتابداران فارسی گودریدز — 5531 members — last activity Mar 22, 2026 03:32AM
گروهی برای کتابداران فارسی زبان سایت گودریدز *همچنین درخواست هایی برای ویرایش، اضافه کردن، افزودن تصویر جلد و ... در مورد کتاب های فارسی را در این گر ...more

Intellectual Curiosity Book Shelf - اَنْتِلِکْتْ‌نما — 71 members — last activity Nov 05, 2020 03:00PM
قراره اینجا راجع‌به کتاب‌ها و مقاله‌هایی که چند وقت یه بار براتون میفرستم صحبت کنیم و ببینیم که چطوری کمک میکنن تا دنیای اطرافمون رو بهتر و بیشتر و دق قراره اینجا راجع‌به کتاب‌ها و مقاله‌هایی که چند وقت یه بار براتون میفرستم صحبت کنیم و ببینیم که چطوری کمک میکنن تا دنیای اطرافمون رو بهتر و بیشتر و دقیق‌تر درک کنیم. Why انتلکت‌نما? "Antelectnama" has negative connotations in our language. Antelectnama people are pretentious, always name-dropping, quoting this and that philosopher, clothing weirdly, asking long, complex, irrelative questions in discussions only to belittle you, etc. But, if Antelectnamas are pretending to be intellectuals, who are "real intellectuals"? What do they do? How are they different from us? Depending on dear Wikipedia(علیه الرحمة), an intellectual is someone engaging in "critical thinking, research, and reflection about the reality of society," and proposing "solutions for the normative problems of society." Given this, I don’t believe there’re "real intellectuals" out there, who haven’t pretended to be intellectuals sometime in their lives. I don’t think that anyone can/could turn into an intellectual person overnight, though it is necessary to be one in this hectic, uncertain, messy world we’ve made and been forced to live in. I’m not encouraging name-dropping or belittling and alienating others; still, I don’t find shame in "pretending" to be one who tends to challenge the status quo. Today, we can at least strive to be intellectual by excessive reading, listening, and watching (radical) materials that broaden our horizons and give us analytical, theoretical, essential tools to disentangle complications in our world. We don’t want to be complicit in the multi-layered intersectional systems of oppression that have besieged us. Our only weaponry to break these sieges is our minds. Here, in this group, we want to foster and polish those analytical and critical skills we don’t get to use in our daily lives. We might not be intellectuals today or tomorrow, but we are working on it rather seriously in this group. Until that day comes, that we can call ourselves "real intellectuals," we pretend to be one by being an "انتلکت‌نما." ...more

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