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“You will never be completely at home again, because part of your heart always will be elsewhere. That is the price you pay for the richness of loving and knowing people in more than one place.”
― Miriam Adeney

“Where has God gone?” [the madman asked] “I shall tell you. We
have killed him – you and I. We are his murderers. But how have we
done this? How were we able to drink up the seas? Who gave us the
sponge to wipe away the entire horizon? What did we do when we
unchained the earth from its sun? Whither is it moving now?

Whither are we moving now? Away from all suns? Are we not perpetually
falling? Backwards, sideward, forward, in all directions? Is there
any up or down left? Are we not straying as though through Infinite nothing?

Where is God? God is Dead. Go remains dead. And we have
killed him. How shall we, murders of all murders, console ourselves?”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

“لا أَنامُ لأحلم - قالت لَهُ
بل أَنام لأنساكَ. ما أطيب النوم وحدي
بلا صَخَبٍ في الحرير، اُبتعدْ لأراكَ
وحيداً هناك، تفكِّر بي حين أنساكَ /
لا شيء يوجعني في غيابكَ
لا الليل يخمش صدري ولا شفتاكَ ...
أنام على جسدي كاملاً كاملا
لا شريك له،
لا يداك تشقَّان ثوبي، ولا قدماكَ
تَدُقَّانِ قلبي كبُنْدقَةٍ عندما تغلق الباب /
لا شيء ينقصني في غيابك:
نهدايَ لي. سُرَّتي. نَمَشي. شامتي،
ويدايَ وساقايَ لي. كُلُّ ما فيَّ لي
ولك الصُّوَرُ المشتهاةُ، فخذْها
لتؤنس منفاكَ، واُرفع رؤاك كَنَخْبٍ
أخير. وقل إن أَردت: هَواكِ هلاك.

وأَمَّا أَنا، فسأُصغي إلى جسدي
بهدوء الطبيبة: لاشيء، لاشيء
يُوجِعُني في الغياب سوى عُزْلَةِ الكون!”
― محمود درويش, كزهر اللوز أو أبعد

“To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground