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“Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world. ”
― Walter Pater

“آقای لوسین زانو می زند. خدایی را دعا می کند که به آن اعتقادی ندارد. شیطان را هم دعا می کند، محض احتیاط.”
― Christian Bobin, همه گرفتارند

“To me, at least in retrospect, the really interesting question is why dullness proves to be such a powerful impediment to attention. Why we recoil from the dull. Maybe it’s because dullness is intrinsically painful; maybe that’s where phrases like ‘deadly dull’ or ‘excruciatingly dull’ come from. But there might be more to it. Maybe dullness is associated with psychic pain because something that’s dull or opaque fails to provide enough stimulation to distract people from some other, deeper type of pain that is always there, if only in an ambient, low-level way, and which most of us spend nearly all our time and energy trying to distract ourselves from feeling, or at least from feeling directly or with our full attention. Admittedly, the whole thing’s pretty confusing, and hard to talk about abstractly…but surely something must lie behind not just Muzak in dull or tedious places any more but now also actual TV in waiting rooms, supermarkets’ checkouts, airport gates, SUVs’ backseats. Walkman, iPods, BlackBerries, cell phones that attach to your head. This terror of silence with nothing diverting to do. I can’t think anyone really believes that today’s so-called ‘information society’ is just about information. Everyone knows it’s about something else, way down.”
― David Foster Wallace

“Le mal, c'est la promesse qu'on ne tient pas...”
― Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt, مهمان ناخوانده

“All books are divisible into two classes: the books of the hours, and the books of all Time.”
― John Ruskin, Sesame and Lilies

“Very few people really care about freedom, about liberty, about the truth, very few. Very few people have guts, the kind of guts on which a real democracy has to depend. Without people with that sort of guts a free society dies or cannot be born.”
― Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook

“It is possible to lead astray an entire generation, to strike it blind, to drive it insane, to direct it towards a false goal. Napoleon proved this.”
― Alexander Herzen

“the psyche has been burned
and left us senseless,
the world has been darker than lights-out
in a closet full of hungry bats,
and the whiskey and wine entered our veins
when blood was too weak to carry on”
― Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last

“I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.”
― Mark Twain

“All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“ز خشک سال چه ترسی!
که سد بسی بستند :
نه در برابر آب،
که در برابر نور
و در برابر آواز و در برابر شور ...

در این زمانه ی عسرت،
به شاعران زمان برگ رخصتی دادند
که از معاشقه ی سرو و قمری و لاله
سرودها بسرایند ژرف تر از خواب
زلال تر از آب.

تو خامشی، که بخواند؟
تو می روی، که بماند؟
که بر نهالک بی برگ ما ترانه بخواند؟”
― محمدرضا شفیعی کدکنی, در کوچه‌باغهای نشابور

“Who is the third who walks always beside you?
When I count, there are only you and I together
But when I look ahead up the white road
There is always another one walking beside you
Gliding wrapt in a brown mantle, hooded
I do not know whether a man or a woman
-But who is that on the other side of you?”
― T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land and Other Poems

“Why are you drinking? - the little prince asked.
- In order to forget - replied the drunkard.
- To forget what? - inquired the little prince, who was already feeling sorry for him.
- To forget that I am ashamed - the drunkard confessed, hanging his head.
- Ashamed of what? - asked the little prince who wanted to help him.
- Ashamed of drinking! - concluded the drunkard, withdrawing into total silence.
And the little prince went away, puzzled.
'Grown-ups really are very, very odd', he said to himself as he continued his journey.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“Because no one has more thirst for earth, for blood, and for ferocious sexuality than the creatures who inhabit cold mirrors”
― Alejandra Pizarnik

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves

“پیش از شما
به‌سان شما
بی‌شمارها
با تار عنکبوت نوشتند روی باد
کین دولت خجسته‌ی جاوید زنده باد”
― محمد رضا شفیعی کدکنی

“اول به سراغ یهودی‌ها رفتند
من یهودی نبودم، اعتراضی نکردم
پس از آن به لهستانی‌ها حمله بردند
من لهستانی نبودم و اعتراضی نکردم
آن‌گاه به لیبرال‌ها فشار آوردند
من لیبرال نبودم، اعتراض نکردم
سپس نوبت به کمونیست‌ها رسید
کمونیست نبودم ، بنابراین اعتراضی نکردم
سرانجام به سراغ من آمدند
هر چه فریاد زدم کسی نمانده بود که اعتراضی کند”
― مارتین نیمولر