“Because there’s nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline, no matter how many times it’s sent away.”
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“Some sort of pressure must exist; the artist exists because the world is not perfect. Art would be useless if the world were perfect, as man wouldn’t look for harmony but would simply live in it. Art is born out of an ill-designed world.”
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“الشرف-ياولدي-ليس في الجسد فقط،
كما يظن بعض أهل الشرق!
الشرف في الكلمات، والوعد، والعمل، والحب.
كن شريفاً في كل أمور حياتك.”
― وصايا
كما يظن بعض أهل الشرق!
الشرف في الكلمات، والوعد، والعمل، والحب.
كن شريفاً في كل أمور حياتك.”
― وصايا
“A man writes because he is tormented, because he doubts. He needs to constantly prove to himself and the others that he’s worth something. And if I know for sure that I’m a genius? Why write then? What the hell for?”
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“My mind," he said, "rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. I can dispense then with artificial stimulants. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation. That is why I have chosen my own particular profession, or rather created it, for I am the only one in the world.”
― The Sign of Four
― The Sign of Four
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