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“There is no greater bore than perfection.”
― Richard Connell, The Most Dangerous Game

“Sometimes I think evil is a tangible thing - with wave lengths, just as sound and light have.”
― Richard Connell, The Most Dangerous Game

“The world is made up of two classes - the hunters and the huntees.”
― Richard Connell, The Most Dangerous Game

“دستانت را گرفتند
و دهانت را خرد كردند
به همین سادگی تمام شدی

از من نخواه در مرگ تو غزل بنويسم
كلماتم را بشويم
آنطور كه خون لبهايت را شستند
و خون لبهايت بند نمي آمد

تو را شهيد نمي خوانم
تو كشته ي تاريكي هستي
كشته ي تاريكي
اين شعر نيست
چشمان كوچك توست
كه در تاريكي ترسيده است
در تنهايي
گريه كرده
اعتراف كرده است

نمي‌خواهم از تو فرشته‌اي بسازم با بالهاي نامرئي
تو نيز بي وفا بودي
بی پروا می خندیدی
گاهي دروغ مي گفتي
تو فرشته نبودي
اما آنكه سينه ات را سوخته به بهشت می رود
با حوریان شیرین هماغوشی می کند
با بزرگان محشور می شود
تو بزرگ نبودي
مال همين پائين شهر بودي

اين شعر نيست
خون دهان توست كه بند نمي آيد”
― الیاس علوی

“As far as I could see, life demanded skills I didn't have.”
― Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted

“Have you ever confused a dream with life? Or stolen something when you have the cash? Have you ever been blue? Or thought your train moving while sitting still? Maybe I was just crazy. Maybe it was the 60's. Or maybe I was just a girl... interrupted.”
― Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted

“All monsters have their fits of depression.”
― Rachilde, Monsieur Vénus

“The ultimate expression of sovereignty largely resides in the power and capacity to dictate who is able to live and who must die. To kill or to let live thus constitutes sovereignty’s limits, its principal attributes. To be sovereign is to exert one’s control over mortality and to define life as the deployment and manifestation of power.”
― Achille Mbembe, Necropolitics

“In this respect, to convert is to locate oneself in a particular temporality and duration. This duration is that of the inexhaustible future constituted by the infinite, the time of eternity, the time that inaugurates divine existence and its extension in the redemption of the body; thus its final point of completion—if there is one—is the parousia.”
― Achille Mbembe, On the Postcolony