Sadaf

“... هيچ کس هرگز کاملآ آزاد نيست. آزادی بشر درست چند ساعت بعد از تولد از او سلب می شود. از همان لحظه ای که برای ما اسمی می گذارند و ما را به خانواده ای نسبت می دهند٬ ديگر فرار غير ممکن ميشود. قادر نيستيم زنجير را پاره کنيم و آزاد باشيم. ساختمان بزرگ اداره ثبت اسناد زندان ماست. همه ما لابه لای اوراق آن کتابها له شده ايم...!”
― Alba de Céspedes, از طرف او

“Don't lies eventually lead to the truth? And don't all my stories, true or false, tend toward the same conclusion? Don't they all have the same meaning? So what does it matter whether they are true or false if, in both cases, they are significant of what I have been and what I am? Sometimes it is easier to see clearly into the liar than into the man who tells the truth. Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.”
― Albert Camus, The Fall

“Friendship is less simple. It is long and hard to obtain but when one has it there's no getting rid of it; one simply has to cope with it. Don't think for a minute that your friends will telephone you every evening, as they ought to, in order to find out if this doesn't happen to be the evening when you are deciding to commit suicide, or simply whether you don't need company, whether you are not in the mood to go out. No, don't worry, they'll ring up the evening you are not alone, when life is beautiful. As for suicide, they would be more likely to push you to it, by virtue of what you owe to yourself, according to them. May heaven protect us, cher Monsieur, from being set upon a pedestal by our friends!”
― Albert Camus, The Fall

“Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.”
― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change