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“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

“لا تعطيني شيئاً للذكرى أنا أعرف كم قصيرة هي الذكرى”
― آنا أخماتوفا

“لا شيءَ يهدّيءُ هذه الروحَ المُلتاعةَ
لا الشوارعُ
ولا أنتِ
ولا الكتبُ”
― عدنان الصائغ

“إذا كنت تسعى للحقيقة ، من الضرورى أن تشك على الأقل مرة واحدة فى حياتك بأقصى ما فى الإمكان فى كل الأشياء .”
― رينيه ديكارت

“الفلسفة هي وحدها تُميزنا من الأقوام المتوحشين والهمجيين. إن حضارة الأمة وثقافتها إنما تُقاس بمقدار شيوع التفلسف الصحيح فيها، ولذلك فإن أجل نعمة يُنعم الله بها على بلد من البلاد هو أن يمنحه فلاسفة حقيقيين.”
― رينيه ديكارت, التفكير الفلسفي

“The voice of the sea speaks to the soul.”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening

“We shall be everything to each other. Nothing else shall be of any consequence.”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening

“Goodbye -- Because I love you.”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening

“Who can tell what metals the gods use in forging the subtle bond which we call sympathy, which we might as well call love.”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening

“One of these days," she said, "I'm going to pull myself together for a while and think - try to determine what character of a woman I am, for, candidly, I do not know. By all the codes which I am acquainted with, I am a devilishly wicked specimen of the sex. But some way I can't convince myself that I am. I must think about it.”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening

“She wanted to destroy something. The crash and clatter were what she wanted to hear.”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening

“The voice of the sea is seductive; never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander for a spell in abysses of solitude; to lose itself in mazes of inward contemplation. The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace.”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening

“I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, and another fig was Ee Gee, the amazing editor, and another fig was Europe and Africa and South America, and another fig was Constantin and Socrates and Attila and a pack of other lovers with queer names and offbeat professions, and another fig was an Olympic lady crew champion, and beyond and above these figs were many more figs I couldn't quite make out. I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“It's an entire world of just 64 squares. I feel safe in it. I can control it; I can dominate it. And it's predictable. So, if I get hurt, I only have myself to blame.”
― Walter Tevis, The Queen's Gambit

“She was alone, and she liked it. It was the way she had learned everything important in her life.”
― Walter Tevis, The Queen's Gambit

“The strongest person is the person who isn’t scared to be alone.”
― Walter Tevis, The Queen's Gambit

“Chess isn't always competitive. Chess can also be beautiful.”
― Walter Tevis, The Queen's Gambit

“Her mind was luminous, and her soul sang to her in the sweet moves of chess.”
― Walter Tevis, The Queen's Gambit

“There had been a few times over the past year when she felt like this, with her mind not only dizzied but nearly terrified by the endlessness of chess.”
― Walter Tevis, The Queen's Gambit

“Beth walked slowly home and replayed the game. Her mind was as lucid as a perfect, stunning diamond”
― Walter Tevis, The Queen's Gambit

“My tranquility needs to be refurbished,”
― Walter Tevis, The Queen's Gambit

“You’ve been the best at what you do for so long you don’t know what it’s like for the rest of us.”
― Walter Tevis, The Queen's Gambit

“That night at eleven she was able to get undressed by being careful. She had found a pair of pajamas earlier and she managed to get them on and to pile her clothes on a chair before getting into bed and passing out. No one had come back by morning. She made scrambled eggs and ate them with two pieces of toast before having her first glass of wine. It was another sunny day. In the living room she found Vivaldi’s “The Four Seasons.” She put it on. Then she began drinking in earnest.”
― Walter Tevis, The Queen's Gambit

“Listen up - there's no war that will end all wars.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat.”
― Confucius

“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

“The same feeling of not belonging, of futility, wherever I go: I pretend interest in what matters nothing to me, I bestir myself mechanically or out of charity, without ever being caught up, without ever being somewhere. What attracts me is elsewhere, and I don’t know where that elsewhere is.”
― Emil M. Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

“She liked then to wander alone into strange and unfamiliar places. She discovered many a sunny, sleepy corner, fashioned to dream in.”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening

“المللُ يصنع المعجزات ، حين نتعلم كيف نغترف من الفراغ ملء اليدين”
― إميل سيوران