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“هرگز گمان نمی‏بردم واژه‏هایی که در نوجوانی، در کتابی قدیمی از نویسنده‏ای یونانی خوانده بودم چنین ژرف، در زیستن و نوشتن، برای من معنا شوند: خوشا آن کس که جهان را در دقایق مرگ‏بار آن زیست

از مقدمه‏ کتاب امید بازیافته: سینمای آندری تارکوفسکی”
― بابک احمدی, امید بازیافته: سینمای آندری تارکوفسکی

“Don't waste your time with fear.. Fear won't keep you safe from being hurt.”
― Tiffanie DeBartolo, God-Shaped Hole

“هرچه هست، جز تقدیری که منش می شناسم، نیست!
دست هایم را برای دست های تو آفریده اند
لبانم را برای یادآوری بوسه، به وقت آرامش.
هی بانو! سادگی، آوازی نیست که در ازدحام این زندگان
زمزمه اش کنیم.


هرچه بود، جز نقدیری که تو را بازت به من می شناسد،
نشانی نیست!
رخسار باکره در پیاله آب، وسوسه لبریز آفرینه نور،
و من که آموخته ام تا چون ماه را
در سایه سار پسین نظاره کنم.


هی بانو...!”
― سید علی صالحی / Ali Salehi, عاشق شدن در دی ماه، مردن به وقت شهریور

“Going to another country doesn’t make any difference. I’ve tried all that. You can’t get away from yourself by moving from one place to another. There’s nothing to that.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

“You are all a lost generation.

[with credit to Gertrude Stein]”
― Ernest Hemingway , The Sun Also Rises

“You ought to dream. All our biggest businessmen have been dreamers.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

“A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbor — such is my idea of happiness.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Семейное счастие

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
― Marcel Proust

“Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry.”
― Jack Kerouac

“I want to write about people who dream and wait for the night to end, who long for the light so they can hold the ones they love.”
― Haruki Murakami, After the Quake

“If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.”
― Hermann Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

“To hold our tongues when everyone is gossiping, to smile without hostility at people and institutions, to compensate for the shortage of love in the world with more love in small, private matters; to be more faithful in our work, to show greater patience, to forgo the cheap revenge obtainable from mockery and criticism: all these are things we can do. ”
― Hermann Hesse

“When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.”
― Hermann Hesse, Wer lieben kann, ist glücklich. Über die Liebe

“Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”
― Franz Kafka

“Run when you can, walk if you have to, crawl if you must; just never give up.”
― Dean Karnazes

“[...]the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes “Awww!”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

“The best teacher is experience and not through someone's distorted point of view”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

“Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it with use.”
― Ruth Gordon

“به آرامی آغاز به مردن می‌كنی
اگر سفر نكنی
اگر كتابی نخوانی
اگر به اصوات زندگی گوش ندهی
اگر از خودت قدردانی نكنی
به آرامی آغاز به مردن می‌كنی
زماني كه خودباوري را در خودت بكشی
وقتي نگذاري ديگران به تو كمك كنند
به آرامي آغاز به مردن می‌كنی
اگر برده‏ی عادات خود شوی
اگرهميشه از يك راه تكراری بروی
اگر روزمرّگی را تغيير ندهی
اگر رنگ‏های متفاوت به تن نكنی
يا اگر با افراد ناشناس صحبت نكنی
تو به آرامی آغاز به مردن می‌كنی
اگر از شور و حرارت
از احساسات سركش
و از چيزهايی كه چشمانت را به درخشش وامی‌دارند
و ضربان قلبت را تندتر مي‌كنند
دوری كنی

تو به آرامی آغاز به مردن می‌كنی
اگر هنگامی كه با شغلت،‌ يا عشقت شاد نيستی، آن را عوض نكنی
اگر برای مطمئن در نامطمئن خطر نكنی
اگر ورای روياها نروی
اگر به خودت اجازه ندهی
كه حداقل يك بار در تمام زندگي‏ات
ورای مصلحت‌انديشی بروی
امروز زندگی را آغاز كن
امروز مخاطره كن
امروز كاری كن”
― پابلو نرودا

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“I am always amazed by people who know something is wrong but still insist on ignoring it, as if that will somehow make it go away. They spare themselves the confrontation, but end up boiling in resentment anyway.”
― David Levithan, Every Day

“Beautiful things don't ask for attention.”
― James Thurber, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

“Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.”
― James Thurber

“Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around us in awareness.”
― James Thurber

“Walter Mitty: To see the world, things dangerous to come to, to see behind walls, draw closer, to find each other, and to feel. That is the purpose of life.”
― The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

“Love is what you've been through with somebody”
― James Thurber

“Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?”
― James Thurber, Collecting Himself: James Thurber on Writers, Humor, and Himself

“Sean O'Connell: Sometimes I don't. If I like a moment, for me, personally, I don't like to have the distraction of the camera. I just want to stay in it.”
― The Secret Life of Walter Mitty