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“Humans cannot reject temptation. When they are plunged into the depths of despair, likened to hell, they will hold on to anything that may help them escape from the situation they are in, even if it's merely a spider's thread, no matter what sort of humans they are.”
― Yana Toboso

“Until the last breath leaves my body, I will not stop walking”
― Allen Walker

“Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.”
― Alexander Pope

“To hear the phrase "our only hope" always makes one anxious, because it means that if the only hope doesn't work, there is nothing left.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Blank Book

“When someone is crying, of course, the noble thing to do is to comfort them. But if someone is trying to hide their tears, it may also be noble to pretend you do not notice them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

“A man of my acquaintance once wrote a poem called "The Road Less Traveled", describing a journey he took through the woods along a path most travelers never used. The poet found that the road less traveled was peaceful but quite lonely, and he was probably a bit nervous as he went along, because if anything happened on the road less traveled, the other travelers would be on the road more frequently traveled and so couldn't hear him as he cried for help. Sure enough, that poet is dead.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Slippery Slope

“A new experience can be extremely pleasurable, or extremely irritating, or somewhere in between, and you never know until you try it out.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Blank Book

“a man is no example for a woman. It’s a different thing.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead

“I have no self-respect. But can a man of acute sensibility respect himself at all?”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead

“There is no greater sorrow
Than to recall a happy time
When miserable.”
― Dante Alighieri

“Take it from me, Fate doesn't care most of the time.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Castle in the Air

“History is filled with brilliant people who wanted to fix things and just made them worse.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby

“As long as there's such a thing as time, everybody's damaged in the end, changed into something else. It always happens, sooner or later.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“Distance might not solve anything, no matter how far you run.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“إنا نحب الورد لكنا نحب الخبز أكثر
ونحب عطر الورد لكن السنابل منه أطهر”
― محمود درويش

“في انتظارِكِ، لا أستطيعُ انتظارَكِ
لا أَستطيعُ قراءةَ دوستويفسكي
ولا الاستماعَ إلي أُمِّ كلثوم أَو ماريّا كالاس
وغيرهما
في انتظارك تمشي العقاربُ في ساعةِ اليد نحو اليسار
إلي زَمَنٍ لا مكانَ لَهُ
في انتظارك لم أنتظرك، انتظرتُ الأزَلْ”
― محمود درويش, حالة حصار

“يسألونك هل تصلي ؟ لا يسألونك هل تخاف الله !”
― أحلام مستغانمي

“There were always in me, two women at least, one woman desperate and bewildered, who felt she was drowning and another who would leap into a scene, as upon a stage, conceal her true emotions because they were weaknesses, helplessness, despair, and present to the world only a smile, an eagerness, curiosity, enthusiasm, interest.”
― Anais Nin

“Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.”
― Anais Nin

“Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.”
― Victor Hugo

“He who has seen the misery of man only has seen nothing, he must see the misery of woman; he who has seen the misery of woman only has seen nothing, he must see the misery of childhood.”
― Victor Hugo

“وأنت وإن أفردت في دار وحشة
فأنا بدار الأنس في وحشة الفرد”
― ابن الرومي

“الحياة انتظار دائم لشيء جميل .”
― هاني نقشبندي

“Reality denied comes back to haunt.”
― Philip K. Dick, Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said

“Agnostics are just atheists without balls.”
― Stephen Colbert, I Am America

“All Dogs Go To Heaven? Sorry, kids. It's only the dogs who've accepted Christ.”
― Stephen Colbert, I Am America

“History is a set of lies agreed upon.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

“If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.”
― Joan Powers, Pooh's Little Instruction Book