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“يا صاحبي، إني حزين
طلع الصباح، فما ابتسمت، ولم ينر وجهي الصباح
في غرفتي دلف المساء
والحزن يولد في المساء لأنه حزن ضرير
حزن طويل كالطريق من الجحيم الى الجحيم
حزن صموتْ
والصمت لا يعني الرضاء بأن أمنية تموت
وبأن أياماً تفوت
وبأن مرفقنا وَهَنْ
وبأن ريحاً من عَفَنْ
مس الحياة، فأصبحت وجميع ما فيها مقيت
حزن تمدد في المدينه
كاللص في جوف السكينه
كالأفعوان بلا فحيح
الحزن قد قهر القلاع جميعها وسبى الكنوز
وأقام حكاماً طغاه
الحزن قد سمل العيون
الحزن قد عقد الجباه
ليقيم حكاماً طغاه
يا تَعْسَها من كِلْمة قد قالها يوماً صديق
مغرى بتزويق الكلام:
«سنعيش رغم الحزن، نقهره، ونضع في الصباح
أفراحنا البيضاء، افراح الذين لهم صباح»..
ورنا إليَّ...
ولم تكن بشراه مما قد يصدقه الحزينْ
يا صاحبي!
زوِّق حديثك، كل شيء قد خلا من كل ذوق
أما أنا، فلقد عرفت نهاية الحدر العميق
الحزن يفترش الطريق...”
― صلاح عبد الصبور, الناس في بلادي

“in crowded rooms they would form words with their lips for each other's eyes”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“She was incomprehensible, for, in her, soul and spirit were one - the beauty of her body was the essence of her soul. She was that unity sought for by philosophers through many centuries. In this outdoor waiting room of winds and stars she had been sitting for a hundred years, at peace in the contemplation of herself.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“How I feel is that if I wanted anything I'd take it. That's what I've always thought all my life. But it happens that I want you, and so I just haven't room for any other desires.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“There was one of his lonelinesses coming, one of those times when he walked the streets or sat, aimless and depressed, biting a pencil at his desk. It was a self-absorption with no comfort, a demand for expression with no outlet, a sense of time rushing by, ceaselessly and wastefully - assuaged only by that conviction that there was nothing to waste, because all efforts and attainments were equally valueless.”
― Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“All she wanted was to be a little girl, to be efficiently taken care of by some yielding yet superior power, stupider and steadier than herself. It seemed that the only lover she had ever wanted was a lover in a dream”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it's a wall that an active you runs up against.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“then, as though it had been waiting on a near by roof for their arrival, the moon came slanting suddenly through the vines and turned the girl's face the color of white roses.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“Art isn't meaningless... It is in itself. It isn't in that it tries to make life less so.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“Beautiful things grow to a certain height and then they fail and fade off, breathing out memories as they decay”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“The fire blazing in her dark and injured heart seemed to glow around her like a flame.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“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.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi