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“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“I am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me.”
― David Levithan, Will Grayson, Will Grayson

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

“Love is so short, forgetting is so long.”
― Pablo Neruda, Love: Ten Poems

“Someday, somewhere - anywhere, unfailingly, you'll find yourself, and that, and only that, can be the happiest or bitterest hour of your life.”
― Pablo Neruda

“I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair.
Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets.
Bread does not nourish me, dawn disrupts me, all day
I hunt for the liquid measure of your steps.

I hunger for your sleek laugh,
your hands the color of a savage harvest,
hunger for the pale stones of your fingernails,
I want to eat your skin like a whole almond.

I want to eat the sunbeam flaring in your lovely body,
the sovereign nose of your arrogant face,
I want to eat the fleeting shade of your lashes,

and I pace around hungry, sniffing the twilight,
hunting for you, for your hot heart,
Like a puma in the barrens of Quitratue.”
― Pablo Neruda

“Well, now
If little by little you stop loving me
I shall stop loving you
Little by little
If suddenly you forget me
Do not look for me
For I shall already have forgotten you

If you think it long and mad the wind of banners that passes through my life
And you decide to leave me at the shore of the heart where I have roots
Remember
That on that day, at that hour, I shall lift my arms
And my roots will set off to seek another land”
― Pablo Neruda, Selected Poems

“كلّما أقبلت على الله خاشعة. صَغُرَ كلّ شيء حولك و في قلبك. فكلّ تكبيرة بين يدي الله تعيد ما عداه إلى حجمه الأصغر. تذكّرك أن لا جبار إلّا الله، و أنّ كلّ رجل متجبّر، حتى في حبّه، هو رجل قليل الإيمان متكبّر. فالمؤمن رحوم حنون بطبعه لأنّه يخاف الله.ـ”
― احلام مستغانمي

“أجمل حب هو الذي نعثر عليه أثناء بحثنا عن شيء آخر”
― أحلام مستغانمي

“لا تنتظر أحداً ..فلن يأتي أحد”
― فاروق جويدة

“مازال في قلبي بقايا .. أمنية
أن نلتقي يوماً ويجمعنا .. الربيع
أن تنتهي أحزاننا
أن تجمع الأقدار يوماً شملنا”
― فاروق جويدة, حبيبتي لا ترحلي

“الناسُ صنفانِ: مَوتى فِي حيَاتِهِم ** وآخرُون بِبَطنِ الأرضِ أحيَـــاءُ”
― أحمد شوقي

“(( إن الذي ملأ اللغات محاسنا... جعل الجمال وسره في الضاد ))”
― أحمد شوقي

“كم هي رهيبة الاسئلة البديهية في بساطتها..تلك التي نجيب عنها دون تفكير كل يوم ..غرباء لا يعنيهن امرنا في النهاية .. ولا يعنينا ان يصدقوا جوابا لا يقل عن نفاق سؤالهم ..ولكن مع اخرين ..كم يلزمنا الذكاء لنخفي باللغة جرحنا؟”
― Ahlam Mosteghanemi, فوضى الحواس

“Time, on its own, heals nothing.”
― Mary Rakow, The Memory Room

“Sometimes to be seen is the same thing as being saved.”
― Mary Rakow, The Memory Room

“Some people underestimate how erotic it is to be understood.”
― Mary Rakow

“It's a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart and a skeptical mind.”
― Naguib Mahfouz, Sugar Street

“and then there are some who
believe that old
relationships can be
revived and made new
again.

but please
if you feel that way

don't phone
don't write
don't arrive”
― Bukowski C.

“Do you hate people?”

“I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.”
― Charles Bukowski, Barfly

“Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.”
― Charles Bukowski

“I wanted the whole world or nothing.”
― Charles Bukowski, Post Office

“Find what you love and let it kill you.”
― Charles Bukowski

“Great art is horseshit, buy tacos.”
― Charles Bukowski

“you've got to burn
straight up and down
and then maybe sidewise
for a while
and have your guts
scrambled by a
bully
and the demonic
ladies,
you've got to run
along the edge of
madness
teetering,
you've got to starve
like a winter
alleycat,
you've go to live
with the imbecility
of at least a dozen
cities,
then maybe
maybe
maybe
you might know
where you are
for a tiny
blinking
moment.”
― Charles Bukowski, Bone Palace Ballet: New Poems

“The Laughing Heart

your life is your life
don’t let it be clubbed into dank submission.
be on the watch.
there are ways out.
there is a light somewhere.
it may not be much light but
it beats the darkness.
be on the watch.
the gods will offer you chances.
know them.
take them.
you can’t beat death but
you can beat death in life, sometimes.
and the more often you learn to do it,
the more light there will be.
your life is your life.
know it while you have it.
you are marvelous
the gods wait to delight
in you.”
― Charles Bukowski, Betting on the Muse: Poems & Stories