The Disappeared Quotes
The Disappeared
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“A soul protects itself from what it cannot bear.”
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“People do not really change; we are only undefeated because we have gone on trying.”
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“The strangeness of my love for you is that it has made me dead in life and you alive in death.”
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“Her eyes held my grief, and her body gathered in my pain and knit it into herself as if she were an old marsh creature weaving baskets from rushes.”
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“Our disappeared were everywhere, irresistible, in waking, in sleeping, a reason for violence, a reason for forgiveness, destroying the peace we tried to possess, creeping between us as we dreamed, leaving us haunted by the knowledge that history is not redeemed by either peace or war but only fingered to shreds and left to our children.”
― The Disappeared
― The Disappeared
“Why do some people live a comfortable life and others live one that is horror-filled? What part of ourselves do we shave off so we can keep on eating while others starve? If women, children, and old people were being murdered a hundred miles from here, would we not run to help? Why do we stop this decision of the heart when the distance is three thousand miles instead of a hundred?”
― The Disappeared
― The Disappeared
“ربما يكون الأمل الوحيد هو أن انسانيتنا قد ترتقي إلى سوية أعلى ، و أننا كلما اتسعت رؤيتنا ، كلما آمنا أكثر بأننا لسنا مختلفين عن بعضنا البعض .”
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“No one can force compassion. But it can be extinguished.”
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“Schau nicht in die Vergangenheit, träum nicht von der Zukunft, konzentrier dich auf die Gegenwart.”
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“The question that skitters over me like rats in a prison cell at night is this: Once we know, what do we do?”
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“ما نفكر فيه ، نؤول إليه ، إذا لم ترو الحقيقة ، لن ترتاح أرواح الموتى أبدا .”
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“يقولون أن أرواح الموتى تبقى هائمة إذا لم يصل الرهبان على الأجساد . لكني أظن أن أرواح الأحياء هي التي تهيم عندما تفقد موتاها .”
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― The Disappeared
“إذا قُيِّض لنا أن نعيش بما فيه الكفاية، علينا أن نروي، أو نتحجر من الداخل، أحاول أن أطلقك من هوَّة في قلبي لكنك تحبسني لأنك غير مدفون وغير مبارك”
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“لم تبدُ يوماً أنها في حاجة إلى الأصدقاء”
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“الناس يعيشون سهواً طوال حياتهم، والصمت يتحول إلى أكاذيب.”
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“الأحقاد لا تنتهي في هذا العالم بالكراهية، لكن بالحب، اهزم الغضب بالحب، اهزم الشرَّ بالخير. اهزم البؤس بالعطاء، اهزم الكاذب بالصدق.”
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“الحقيقة ستحرِّرك، لكنها ستغضبك أولاً.”
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― The Disappeared
“أي جزء نخلعه من أنفسنا حتى يمكننا أن نواصل تناول الطعام بينما الآخرون يتضوَّرون جوعاً؟”
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