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“Some nights I need to be held. Tonight I'm a listener. So nice to lie in rumpled sheets and listen. Cover me with words.”
― Don DeLillo, Libra

“You have to break through the structure of your own stonework habit just to make yourself listen.”
― Don DeLillo, Falling Man

“She wanted this only, to snuff out the pulse of the shaky faith she'd held for much of her life.”
― Don DeLillo, Falling Man

“The future belongs to crowds.”
― Don DeLillo, Mao II

“I've got death inside me. It's just a question of whether or not I can outlive it.”
― Don DeLillo, White Noise

“Even when you self-destruct, you want to fail more, lose more, die more than others, stink more than others.”
― Don DeLillo, Cosmopolis

“Doesn't our knowledge of death make life more precious?'

What good is a preciousness based on fear and anxiety? It's an anxious quivering thing”
― Don DeLillo, White Noise

“That which we fear to touch is often the very fabric of our salvation. ”
― Don DeLillo, Libra

“Freud is finished, Einstein's next.”
― Don DeLillo, Cosmopolis

“Everything's a scandal. Dying's a scandal. But we all do it.”
― Don DeLillo, Cosmopolis

“Be willing to die for your beliefs, or computer printouts of your beliefs.”
― Don DeLillo, Great Jones Street

“Kitsch is the inability to admit that shit exists”
― Milan Kundera

“As crimes pile up, they become invisible.”
― Bertolt Brecht

“Estragon: I'm like that. Either I forget right away or I never forget.”
― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

“Yes, there were times when I forgot not only who I was but that I was, forgot to be.”
― Samuel Beckett, Molloy

“تعيس هو البلد الذي يحتاج إلى أبطال.”
― Bertolt Brecht, Galileo

“إذا أخذت في اعتبارك العقبات، فإن أقصر خط بين نقطتين هو الطريق المتعرج.”
― Bertolt Brecht, Galileo

“Vladimir: I don't understand.
Estragon: Use your intelligence, can't you?
Vladimir uses his intelligence.
Vladimir: (finally) I remain in the dark.”
― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

“Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.”
― Samuel Beckett, Proust

“It is suicide to be abroad. But what is it to be at home? A lingering dissolution.”
― Samuel Beckett

“لكن فكر فكر ، انت على الأرض ولاعلاج لذلك”
― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

“We always find something, eh Didi, to let us think we exist?”
― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

“There will be time, there will be time
To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet.”
― T.S. Eliot.

“I will show you fear in a handful of dust.”
― T.S. Eliot

“Teach us to care and not to care”
― T.S. Eliot

“You gave me hyacinths first a year ago;
They called me the hyacinth girl.'
—Yet when we came back, late, from the Hyacinth garden,
Your arms full, and your hair wet, I could not
Speak, and my eyes failed, I was neither
Living nor dead, and I knew nothing,
Looking into the heart of light, the silence.
Od' und leer das Meer.”
― T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land and Other Writings

“Light
Light
The visible reminder of Invisible Light.”
― T.S. Eliot

“Till Human voices wake us, and we drown.”
― T.S. Eliot

“Now that the lilacs are in bloom
She has a bowl of lilacs in her room”
― T.S. Eliot, Collected Poems, 1909-1962

“Thinking of the key, each confirms a prison.”
― T. S. Eliot