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Monire’s Quotes

“She had lived her early years as though she were waiting for something she might, but never did, become.”
― Marguerite Duras, The Ravishing of Lol Stein

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“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

tags: writing

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“تاريك بود
با عناصرِ فلزي اش ولغزندگيِ يخ كه بر من آوار شد
ماهي چروك كه روي سايه ام راه مي رفت ماهياني ست كه به گور ريخته ام
خاطره اي عتيق كه روي سقف آويزان است
قرن هاست كه ادامه دارد
رويِ صورتكي كه حرف مي زند
اداهايش شكل مي گيرند
يخ ها كه مي ريزند، شاخه های مشبكم شكسته اند
عروسك كاغذي ما بود
كه بر باد داديم اش
و نقش اش كهنه شد بر سقف”
― rosa jamali, این ساعت شنی که به خواب رفته است THE HOURGLASS IS FAST ASLEEP

tags: شعر-رزا-جمالی

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“Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
― Allen Saunders

tags: fate, life, misattributed-john-lennon, planning, plans

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“عشق را
بدون بزک می‌خواستیم
دنیا را بدون تفنگ
روی دیوارهای سیاه
گل سرخ نقاشی کردیم
رهگذران به ما خندیدند
به ما خندیدند رهگذران
ما فقط نگاه کردیم
جاده‌ها
دور شهر گره خورده بودند
در شهر ماندیم و پوسیدیم و خواندیم:
قطاری که ما را از این جا نبرد
قطار نیست”
― رسول یونان

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