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“I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it -- to be fed so much love I couldn't take any more. Just once. ”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“I want you always to remember me. Will you remember that I existed, and that I stood next to you here like this?”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“But I didn't understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can, just by living, damage another human being beyond repair.”
― Haruki Murakami

“Listen up - there's no war that will end all wars.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“I have this strange feeling that I'm not myself anymore. It's hard to put into words, but I guess it's like I was fast asleep, and someone came, disassembled me, and hurriedly put me back together again. That sort of feeling.”
― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“I think you still love me, but we can’t escape the fact that I’m not enough for you. I knew this was going to happen. So I’m not blaming you for falling in love with another woman. I’m not angry, either. I should be, but I’m not. I just feel pain. A lot of pain. I thought I could imagine how much this would hurt, but I was wrong.”
― Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun

“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
― haruki murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

“Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.”
― Haruki Marukami

“And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?”
― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

“Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment. ”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts. Over and over you play this out, like some ominous dance with death just before dawn. Why? Because this storm isn't something that blew in from far away, something that has nothing to do with you. This storm is you. Something inside of you. So all you can do is give in to it, step right inside the storm, closing your eyes and plugging up your ears so the sand doesn't get in, and walk through it, step by step. There's no sun there, no moon, no direction, no sense of time. Just fine white sand swirling up into the sky like pulverized bones. That's the kind of sandstorm you need to imagine.

And you really will have to make it through that violent, metaphysical, symbolic storm. No matter how metaphysical or symbolic it might be, make no mistake about it: it will cut through flesh like a thousand razor blades. People will bleed there, and you will bleed too. Hot, red blood. You'll catch that blood in your hands, your own blood and the blood of others.

And once the storm is over you won't remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won't even be sure, in fact, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm you won't be the same person who walked in. That's what this storm's all about.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.”
― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

“Don't feel sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“But who can say what's best? That's why you need to grab whatever chance you have of happiness where you find it, and not worry about other people too much. My experience tells me that we get no more than two or three such chances in a life time, and if we let them go, we regret it for the rest of our lives.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back. That's part of what it means to be alive. But inside our heads - at least that's where I imagine it - there's a little room where we store those memories. A room like the stacks in this library. And to understand the workings of our own heart we have to keep on making new reference cards. We have to dust things off every once in awhile, let in fresh air, change the water in the flower vases. In other words, you'll live forever in your own private library.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

“أقرُّ لــهُ بالذنبِ ؛ والذنبُ ذنـــــــــبهُ وَيَزْعُمُ أنّي ظــــــالم فَــــــــــــأتُوبُ

وَيَقْصِدُني بالهَــــجْرِ عِلْـــــــــماً بِأنّهُ إليَّ ، على ما كانَ منــهُ ، حبيبُ

و منْ كلِّ دمعٍ في جفوني سحابة ٌ و منْ كلِّ وجدٍ في حشايَ لهيبُ”
― أبو فراس الحمداني, ديوان أبي فراس الحمداني

“فليتك تحلو والحياة مريرة
وليتك ترضى والأنام غضابُ

وليت الذي بيني وبينك عامر
وبيني وبين العالمين خرابُ

إذا صح منك الود فالكل هين
وكل الذي فوق التراب ترابُ”
― أبو فراس الحمداني

“رأيتك لا تختار إلا تباعدي..
فباعدت نفسي لإتباع هواكا
..فبعدك يؤذيني و قربي لكم أذى
فكيف احتيالي يا جعلت فداكا؟”
― أبو فراس الحمداني

“يقولون لي بعت السلامة بالردى
فقلت : أما والله ، ما نالني خسر
وهل يتجافى الموت عني ساعة
إذا ما تجافى عني الأسر والضر ؟
هو الموت فاختر ما علا لك ذكره
فلم يمت الانسان ما حيي الذكر”
― أبو فراس الحمداني, ديوان أبى فراس الحمداني

“أزعمت أنك صابر لصدوده
هيهات صبر العاشقين قليل
ما للمحب علي الصدود جلادة
ما للمشوق إلى العزاء سبيل
فدع التعزز، إن عزمت على الهوى
إن العزيز، إذا أحب، ذليل”
― أبو فراس الحمداني

“مغرم، مؤلم، جريح، أسير..
إنّ قَلْباً، يُطِيقُ ذا، لَصَبُور
وَكَثِير مِنَ الرّجَالِ حَدِيدٌ
وَكَثِيرٌ مَنَ القُلُوبِ صُخُورُ”
― أبو فراس الحمداني

“بدوتُ ، وأهلي حاضرونَ ، لأنني أرى أنَّ داراً ، لستِ من أهلها ، قفرُ”
― أبو فراس الحمداني

“أساءَ، فزادتهُ الإساءةُ حُظوَةً
حبيبٌ على ماكان منهُ، حبيبُ
يَعُدُّ عليّ العاذلون ذنوبهُ
ومن أين للوجهِ المَليحِ ذنوبُ
فيا أيها الجاني، ونسألهُ الرضا
ويا أيها الجاني، ونحن نتوبُ.”
― أبو فراس الحمداني, ديوان أبي فراس الحمداني

“الشعر ديوان العرب ** أبدًا و عنوان الأدب
لم أعدُ فيه مفاخري ** و مديح آبائي النّجب
و مقطَّعات ربمــا ** حلّيت منهن الكتب
لا في المديح و لا الهجاء ** المجونِ و لا اللعب”
― أبو فراس الحمداني

“أخي مابال قلبك ليس ينقى
كأنك لا تظن الموت حقّا
ألا يا بن الذين فنوا وبادوا
أما والله ما ذهبوا لتبقى”
― أبو نواس