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“(( السعادة صنعة ، السعادة اختيار ))..”
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“He’d come to understand that they weren’t waging a war against books so much as a war against reading. Reading was a bad habit, but you couldn’t keep people from doing it, just as you couldn’t keep them from smoking or having sex. All you could do was limit their options, give them the illusion of choice. Then, all on their own, they would turn away. In the future, he and the other censors wouldn’t need to ban any books—no one would read them anyway. It was as if he could see the future of humankind in a crystal ball.”
― The Book Censor's Library
― The Book Censor's Library
“HUMAN EXISTENCE IS SUFFERING. THE ROOT OF SUFFERING IS DESIRE. THE ROOT OF DESIRE IS IMAGINATION.”
― The Book Censor's Library
― The Book Censor's Library
“الأُنوثة قيمة أيها العالم ، و دربٌ من دروب الوعية”
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“لماذ يلوّح الغريق بيديه ؟”
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“الكتابة ينبوعُ السؤال ، ماء القلق ، فن الوُجود .”
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“من وشوش في أذنكِ
يا حبة العنب الصغيرة
أن تتدحرجي
لجحر الفأر الجائع؟!”
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يا حبة العنب الصغيرة
أن تتدحرجي
لجحر الفأر الجائع؟!”
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“He’d come to understand that they weren't waging a war against books, they were waging a war against reading.”
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“كنتُ سأشبهني أكثر لو كان لي اسم يشبه ميولي الانتحارية - عباءتي السوداء, وزرقة شفتي, والوجنة المخدوشةُ بالدمعِ, والجفن المتورّم, وهيئة البكاءِ الأبديّ, و الموت الوشيك.”
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“كل ليلة ..
يغمض العالَمْ عينيه ويحلم بالأمور التي ستحدث
في اليوم التالي , ولأنه ينسى أحلامه بمجرد استيقاظه ,
فهو لايملّ من التفرج على الزمن , ويتسائل في كل مرة
<< لماذا يبدو كل شيء مألوفاً هنا! >>”
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يغمض العالَمْ عينيه ويحلم بالأمور التي ستحدث
في اليوم التالي , ولأنه ينسى أحلامه بمجرد استيقاظه ,
فهو لايملّ من التفرج على الزمن , ويتسائل في كل مرة
<< لماذا يبدو كل شيء مألوفاً هنا! >>”
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“ثمة زمنان. زمنٌ يعاش ،وزمنٌ يكتب
زمنٌ يستهلك ، وزمنٌ نجففه في حروفٍ وكلمات
ثمة لحظة النص، التي تتفجر فيها التجربة على الورق ، حروفاً حروف
وثمة لحظة اللحظة إياها
عندما تكشف الحياة عن وجهها
وتجبرنا على النظر إليه”
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زمنٌ يستهلك ، وزمنٌ نجففه في حروفٍ وكلمات
ثمة لحظة النص، التي تتفجر فيها التجربة على الورق ، حروفاً حروف
وثمة لحظة اللحظة إياها
عندما تكشف الحياة عن وجهها
وتجبرنا على النظر إليه”
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“الكلمة كائن هش ومتاهفت”
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“He knew that he was caught in the throat of a word that would never utter him, a word that he, too, would never let past his lips.”
― The Book Censor's Library
― The Book Censor's Library
“زُجاجة العطر تَبكي في الليل :
ًلماذا . . جعلوا مني وعاء
لدماء أزهار ؟”
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ًلماذا . . جعلوا مني وعاء
لدماء أزهار ؟”
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“The world was recreating itself before his eyes, as if the big bang had just happened and he had been appointed the grantor of titles. Except, of course, he knew that the government had finished that job a long time ago. He knew that he was caught in the throat of a word that would never utter him, a word that he, too, would never let past his lips.”
― حارس سطح العالم
― حارس سطح العالم
“At all times, we must stay on the surface of language.
The surface!
Beware of wading into meaning. Do you know what happens to people who sink into meaning?
An eternal mania strangles them and they’re left unfit to live.
You are a guardian of surfaces. The future of humanity depends on you.”
― حارس سطح العالم
The surface!
Beware of wading into meaning. Do you know what happens to people who sink into meaning?
An eternal mania strangles them and they’re left unfit to live.
You are a guardian of surfaces. The future of humanity depends on you.”
― حارس سطح العالم
“Before, an invisible line - something like the equator - had separated the real from the imaginary, but after that book, the line ceased to exist.”
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“Writing is a glue;
It pulls me together,
Saves me just in time,
And leaves me to perish.”
― All That I Want to Forget
It pulls me together,
Saves me just in time,
And leaves me to perish.”
― All That I Want to Forget
“لم يعرف العالم عاشقين بائسين كالموت والحياة، يركض كل منهما باتجاه الآخر دون أن يدركه، يفصل بينهما جدار مستحيل أسمه الزمن ، فيجيء كل منهما إما مبكرا أو متأخرا عن الآخر ، يترك له علامات يتعهد فيها بحبه الأبدي ، ويمضي في بحثه مرة ثانية.”
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“Sebelum membaca Zorba, pepohonan di jalanan hanyalah kumpulan daun dan ranting tak Bernama. Tapi setelah membacanya, dia memberi pepohonan itu nama-nama berdasarkan engetahuan barunya: pohon tin liar, tamariska, semak alang-alang, dan tanaman Verbascum. Alam tercipta ulang di hadapannya, seolah-olah Big Bang baru terjadi dan dialah manusia pertama yang bertugas menamai benda-benda.”
― حارس سطح العالم
― حارس سطح العالم
“Because they’re changing the past, and we need to protect our collective memory. That way, when this world falls, as it’s destined to do so, we’ll have somewhere to start from.”
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“The balance of the world goes horribly askew when a story is confiscated; it becomes a darker, more ominous place.”
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“You can all tolerate ugliness, tolerate child abuse and rape, you can tolerate cursing and swearing, domestic violence, racism, you can tolerate Israel, America, your sectarianism, government corruption, underage marriage, everything! You can tolerate all the garbage in the world but you can't tolerate a poem.”
― All That I Want to Forget
― All That I Want to Forget




