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“In captivity, in the shed, Pierre had learned, not with his mind, but with his whole being, his life, that man is created for happiness, that happiness is within him, in the satisfying of natural human needs, and that all unhappiness comes not from lack, but from superfluity; but now, in these last three weeks of the march, he had learned a new and more comforting truth - he had learned that there is nothing frightening in the world. He had learned that, as there is no situation in the world in which a man can be happy and perfectly free, so there is no situation in which he can be perfectly unhappy and unfree. He had learned that there is a limit to suffering and a limit to freedom, and that those limits are very close; that the man who suffers because one leaf is askew in his bed of roses, suffers as much as he now suffered falling asleep on the bare, damp ground, one side getting cold as the other warmed up; that when he used to put on his tight ballroom shoes, he suffered just as much as now, when he walked quite barefoot (his shoes had long since worn out) and his feet were covered with sores.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right and what is easy, remember what happened to a boy who was good, and kind, and brave, because he strayed across the path of Lord Voldemort. Remember Cedric Diggory.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.”
― Shel Silverstein

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
― Charles Bukowski

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
― Gustave Flaubert

“ما هرگز نمی توانیم با قاطعیت بگوییم که روابط ما با دیگران تا چه حدی از احساسات ما، از عشق ما، از فقدان عشق ما، از لطف و مهربانی ما، و یا از کینه و نفرت ما، سرچشمه می گیرد و تا چه حد از قدرت و ضعف در میان افراد تاثیر می پذیرد.

بارهستی
میلان کوندرا”
― milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“He looked at her the way all women want to be looked at by a man.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“گناه کاری است که شما به زیان خویشتنِ خویش انجام می‌دهید. هر احساس، باور یا کلامی که به زیان شماست، گناه است.”
― Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom

“آزادی که بپذیری
آزادی که بگویی نه
و این
زندان کوچکی نیست.

آزادی که ساعت‌ها دست‌هایت در هم قفل شوند
چشم‌هایت بروند و بر نگردند‌، خیره! خیره بمان

و ما اسم اعظم را به کار می‌بریم:
اسکیزوفرنیک.

آزادی که کتاب‌ها جمع شوند زیر دیرکی که تو را به آن بسته‌اند
و یکی‌شان
آتش را شروع کند.

آزادی که به هیچ قصه و شهر و کوچه‌ای
به هیچ زمانی برنگردی

و از اتاق‌های هتل
صدای خنده به گوش برسد.”
― شهرام شیدایی