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“Eventually we come to know and understand a lot of things, but it's too late, because a whole life has already been determined at a stage when we didn't know a thing.”
― Milan Kundera, Ignorance

“What was love if it wasn't nursing someone else's pain as if it were your own?”
― Elif Shafak, 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World

“Now time has a very different look; it is no longer the conquering present capturing the future; it is the present conquered and captured and carried off by the past.”
― Milan Kundera, Ignorance

“We must do what we can to mend our lives, we owe that to ourselves – but we need to be careful not to break others while achieving that.”
― Elif Shafak, 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World

“She was a foreigner and, like all foreigners, she carried with her the shadow of an elsewhere.”
― Elif Shafak, 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World

“Was insanity just a matter of dropping the act?”
― Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted

“The moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you've already stopped loving that person forever.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“فيا أي شيء أفعل شيئاً فقد طحننا اللاشيء.”
― نجيب محفوظ, ثرثرة فوق النيل

“لم يكن عجيبا أن يعبد المصريون فرعون، ولكن العجيب أن فرعون آمن حقاً بأنه إله”
― نجيب محفوظ, ثرثرة فوق النيل

“I yearned for everything long gone.”
― Osamu Dazai, Schoolgirl

“It made me miserable that I was rapidly becoming an adult and that I was unable to do anything about it.”
― Osamu Dazai, Schoolgirl

“no matter how difficult, because I would have a purpose in life, I would have hope.”
― Osamu Dazai, Schoolgirl

“Tomorrow will probably be another day like today. Happiness will never come my way. I know that. But it's probably best to go to sleep believing that it will surely come, tomorrow it will come.”
― Osamu Dazai, Schoolgirl

“Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“أصعب مافي الحب هو أن ترتبط عاداتك بالطرف الاخر لأن تلك العادات تعذبنا بعدما ننفصل عن من نحب··”
― أثير عبدالله النشمي, في ديسمبر تنتهي كل الأحلام

“عندما تبكينا الأغاني , فهذا يعني بأننا إما في أقصى حالات الوجع .. أو أننا في أشد أوقات الحاجة .. وكلا الشعورين أمرّ من العلقم ..”
― أثير عبدالله النشمي, في ديسمبر تنتهي كل الأحلام