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“L'enfance est un couteau planté dans la gorge.”
― Wajdi Mouawad, Incendies

“Nous rêvions de regarder l'océan ensemble. Eh bien, Nawal, je te le dis, je te le jure, le jour où je le verrai, le mot océan explosera dans ta tête et tu éclateras en sanglots car tu sauras que je pense à toi. Peu importe où je serai, nous serons ensemble. Il n'y a rien de plus beau que d'être ensemble.”
― Wajdi Mouawad, Incendies

“Je voulais te dire que cette nuit, mon coeur est plein d'amour, il va exploser. Partout on me dit que je t'aime trop; moi je ne sais pas ce que ça veut dire aimer trop.”
― Wajdi Mouawad, Incendies

“Maintenant que nous sommes ensemble, ça va mieux.”
― Wajdi Mouawad, Incendies

“La mort, ça ne se prévoit pas. La mort, ça n'a pas de parole. Elle détruit toutes ses promesses. On pense qu'elle viendra plus tard, puis elle vient quand elle veut.”
― Wajdi Mouawad, Incendies

“What you call passion is not a spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world. Where passion dominates, that does not signify the presence of greater desire and ambition, but rather the misdirection of these qualities toward and isolated and false goal, with a consequent tension and sultriness in the atmosphere. Those who direct the maximum force of their desires toward the center, toward true being, toward perfection, seem quieter than the passionate souls because the flame of their fervor cannot always be seen. In argument, for example, they will not shout or wave their arms. But, I assure you, they are nevertheless, burning with subdued fires.”
― Hermann Hesse, The Glass Bead Game

“La liberté de penser, et de mal penser et de penser peu, la liberté de choisir moi-même ma vie, de me choisir moi-même. Je ne peux dire ˝d´être moi-même˝, puisque je n´étais rien qu´une pâte modelable, mais celle de refuser les moules.”
― Françoise Sagan, Bonjour tristesse

“That is why I think the first, most basic step in these matters is to start with the moments of real feeling in your life, when your heart is truly moved, and to think about the meaning of those. The things that you feel most deeply, from the very bottom of your heart, will never deceive you in the slightest. And so at all times, in all things, whatever feelings you may have, consider these carefully.”
― Genzaburo Yoshino, How Do You Live?

“I think there has to come a time when everyone in the world treats each other as if they were good friends. Since humanity has come so far, I think now we will definitely be able to make it to such a place.

So I think I want to become a person who can help that happen.”
― Genzaburo Yoshino, How Do You Live?

“To appreciate art, you must use your inner eyes and ears. You must open your heart.”
― Genzaburo Yoshino, How Do You Live?

“In the world at large, people who are able to free themselves from this self-centered way of thinking are truly uncommon. Above all, when one stands to gain or lose, it is exceptionally difficult to step outside of oneself and make correct judgments, and thus one could say that people who are able to think Copernicus-style even about these things are exceptionally great people. Most people slip into a self-interested way of thinking, become unable to understand the facts of the matter, and end up seeing only that which betters their own circumstances.”
― Genzaburo Yoshino, How Do You Live?

“People working in great hardship and those of us living in relative happiness are completely cut off from each other in our daily lives, but actually we are bound together by an unbreakable net. So if we don’t care about those people and we live thinking only of our own happiness, that is wrong, is it not?”
― Genzaburo Yoshino, How Do You Live?