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“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“But man is a fickle and disreputable creature and perhaps, like a chess-player, is interested in the process of attaining his goal rather than the goal itself.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead

“My dreams, my dreams! What has become of their sweetness? What indeed has become of my youth?”
― Alexander Pushkin, Eugene Onegin

“A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.”
― Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls

“It's a lucky man, a very lucky man, who is committed to what he believes, who has stifled intellectual detachment and can relax in the luxury of his emotions - like a tipsy traveller resting for the night at wayside inn.”
― Alexander Pushkin, Eugene Onegin

“He filled a shelf with a small army of books and read and read; but none of it made sense. .. They were all subject to various cramping limitations: those of the past were outdated, and those of the present were obsessed with the past.”
― Alexander Pushkin, Eugene Onegin

“For some a prologue, for some an epilogue.”
― Bulgakov Mikhail Afanas'evich

“We all come out from Gogol's 'Overcoat'.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“at one time, a freethinker was a man who had been brought up in the conceptions of religion, law and morality, who reached freethought only after conflict and difficulty. But now a new type of born freethinkers has appeared, who grow up without so much as hearing that there used to be laws of morality, or religion, that authorities existed... In the old days, you see, if a man - a Frenchman, for instance- wished to get an education, he would have set to work to study the classics, the theologians, the tragedians, historians and philosophers- and you can realize all the intellectual labour involved. But nowadays he goes straight for the literature of negation, rapidly assimilates the essence of the science of negation, and thinks he's finished.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“Credo che non ti amerei tanto se in te non ci fosse nulla da lamentare, nulla da rimpiangere. Io non amo la gente perfetta, quelli che non sono mai caduti, non hanno inciampato. La loro è una virtù spenta, di poco valore. A loro non si è svelata la bellezza della vita.”
― Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago

“If circumstances should make it impossible (temporarily, I hope) for me to be a Russian writer, perhaps I shall be able, like the Pole Joseph Conrad, to become for a time an English writer... ("Letter To Stalin")”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin

“...es insoportable ver solo ante si la larga hilera de comidas, mirar la vida como una ceremonia y seguir a la solemne multitud, sin compartir con ella las opiniones generales ni las pasiones.”
― Alexander Pushkin, Eugene Onegin

“Hi there! It's me, the author, Fyodor Dostoevsky. I hope you're enjoying my novel, The Brothers Karamazov. Stick around till the end for a brief look behind the scenes.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

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

“وحده المثقف يعيد النظر في نفسه كل يوم، ويعيد النظر في علاقته مع العالم ومع الأشياء كلما تغير شيء في حياته ..”
― شكسبير

“آن : أقسمُ إنه لأهون على الإنسان أن يولدَ في أسوة متوااضعة و يعيشُ مع الفقراء القانعين ، من أن يلبس أفخر الثياب و هو حزين ، و يزدان بالذهب و هو كاسف البال .”
― وليم شكسبير, هنري الثامن

“هناك ثمة وقت في حياة الإنسان إذا انتفع به نال فوزاً ومجداً، وإذا لم ينتهز الفرصة أصبحت حياته عديمة الفائدة وبائسة”
― وليم شكسبير

“إذا أردت أن تصمد للحياة فلا تأخذها على أنها مأساة”
― توفيق الحكيم

“لقد تعلمنا في المدرسة ونحن صغار أن السنبلة

الفارغة ترفع رأسها في الحقل،

وأن الممتلئة بالقمح تخفضه، فلا يتواضع إلا كبير،

ولا يتكبر إلا حقير.”
― علي الطنطاوي

“إننا نعيش لأنفسنا حياة مضاعفة، حينما نعيش للآخرين، وبقدر ما نضاعف إحساسنا بالآخرين نضاعف إحساسنا بحياتنا، ونضاعف هذه الحياة ذاتها في النهاية.”
― سيد قطب, أفراح الروح

“ما فائدة الأشياء الجميلة إذا لم ترها عيون الإنسان الحبيب؟ ماذا تفعل بالجمال والهناءة إذا لم تشعر بهما في قلب مَن تحب؟”
― Romain Rolland, أنطوانيت

“اللؤلؤ -على عكس الماس أو العقيق الذي يجب أن يُقطع ويصقَل- هو التحفة الوحيدة الكاملة من أصلها في الطبيعة.”
― Ferdinand C. Lane, All About the Sea

“بالذوق الجميل الذي ينطبع فيه فكر الفرد، يجد الإنسان في نفسه نزوعاً إلى الإحسان في العمل وتوخياً للكريم من العادات
ولاشك أن للجمال أهمية اجتماعية كبيرة ، إذا ما عددناه المنبع الذي تتصدر عنه الأفكار وتصدر عنه بواسطة تلك الأفكار أعمال الفرد في المجتمع. ص82”
― مالك بن نبي, مشكلة الثقافة

“ينطق لسانك بالرغم عنك أمام الجمال ليقول .. الله وتصرخ حينما تتلوى لتقول الله .. انه صوت قلبك ال1ي رأى طابع الاله و أثر يديه على مخلوقاته”
― مصطفى محمود, رأيت الله

“أعرف أني لو دنوت منها سيقضي جمالها عليَّ، كما تقضي شمس ليبيا على فراشة.”
― Mario Vargas Llosa, In Praise of the Stepmother

“لا شئ يضاهي المرأة الغارقة في نفسها، الأنوثة التي تناسب من مكامنها والضربة التي تأتي قاتلة”
― ياسر أحمد, مجنون دبي