“If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.”
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“تنبع الإهانة من إرادة واعية في التعدي على كرامة الآخرين، وليس فقط من الهيمنة. إنها أحد الأمور الأكثر انتشاراً اليوم عالمياً بفضل مستخدميها ومن يحافظون عليها. وهو الأمر الذي يثير الأقل فالأقل من السخط من جانب الحكومات والشعوب المُهَانة نفسها أو من طرف الرأي العالمي والدولي.”
― Humiliation à l'ère du méga-impérialisme
― Humiliation à l'ère du méga-impérialisme
“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
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“You can spread your soul over a paddy field, you can whisper to a mango tree, you can feel the earth between your toes and know that this is the place, the place where it begins and ends. But what can you tell to a pile of bricks? The bricks will not be moved (page 87).”
― Brick Lane
― Brick Lane
“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.”
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
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