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“I may be mistaken but it seems to me that a man may be judged by his laugh, and that if at first encounter you like the laugh of a person completely unknown to you, you may say with assurance that he is good.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The House of the Dead

“Man cannot exist without work, without legal, natural property. Depart from these conditions, and he becomes perverted and changed into a wild beast.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The House of the Dead or Prison Life in Siberia with an introduction by Julius Bramont

“I am a dreamer. I know so little of real life that I just can’t help re-living such moments as these in my dreams, for such moments are something I have very rarely experienced. I am going to dream about you the whole night, the whole week, the whole year.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, White Nights

“I don’t know how to be silent when my heart is speaking.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, White Nights

“It was a wonderful night, such a night as is only possible when we are young, dear reader.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

“Your hand is cold, mine burns like fire. How blind you are, Nastenka!”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

“For myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.”
― Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

“I’m thinking only of my illness and my health, though both, the first as well as the second, are you.”
― Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

“I love you,” I say to him, only it comes out, “Hey.”
“So damn much,” he says back, only it comes out, “Dude.”
He still won’t meet my eyes.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“what is bad for the heart is good for art. The terrible irony of our lives as artists.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“In one split second I saw everything I could be, everything I want to be. And all that I’m not.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“Maybe some people are just meant to be in the same story.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“You have to see the miracles for there to be miracles.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“If bad luck knows who you are, become someone else.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“It's never occurred to me that the stars are still up there shining even in the daytime when we can't see them.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“How can I get to you?
Tell me,
if you are heaven
Then I pray to all Gods
Tell me,
if you are hell
Then I fill the earth with all sins.

How can I get to you?
Tell me,
if you are an occupied land
Then I make a flag with my skin.

If you are a refugee like me
Draw a border around me
and
Make me your land.
But tell me, how can I get to you?”
― (Ebdulla peşêw)عه‌بدوڵا په‌شێو

“No night is long enough for us to dream twice.”
― Mahmoud Darwish, Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems

“The poem is in my hands, and can run stories through her hands.”
― Mahmoud Darwish, Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems

“Please take your time. I want you to kill me slowly so I can write my last
poem to my wife's heart. They laughed, and took from me
only the words dedicated to my wife's heart.”
― Mahmoud Darwish, Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems

“There is no name for what life should be, except
what you did and what you do to my soul.”
― Mahmoud Darwish, Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
― Rumi

“She loved him so much she concealed his name in many phrases, the inner meanings known only to her.”
― Rumi, The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing

“Where the lips are silent the heart has a thousand tongues.”
― Rumi, The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing

“If you want to be more alive, love is the truest health.”
― Rumi, The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing

“A truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent.”
― William Blake, Auguries of Innocence

“What is now proved was once only imagined.”
― William Blake

“Here my tears are falling, Nastenka. Let them flow, let them flow - they don't hurt anybody. They will dry Nastenka.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

“... but only I would love you so, I would love you so, that even if you still loved him and continued to love this person whom I don't know, you still would not find my love tone a burden to you in any way.”
― Dostoevskiy, Белые ночи

“My God, a whole moment of happiness! Is that too little for the whole of a man's life?”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, شب‌های روشن و پنج داستان دیگر