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“كانت صورة الظلمات الكثيفة ثابتة أمامي، ظلمات عميقة بلا أمل في النجاة، ممتدة تماما مثل هذا الكون الفسيح. كنت وحيدة أكثر من أي وقت مضى.”
― هاروكي موراكامي, Sleep

“How empty is the world when you lose the one you love”
― Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North

“وربما أوجب استقصاؤنا النظر عدولاً عن المشهور والمتعارف ، فمن قرع سمعه خلاف ما عهده ، فلا يبادرنا بالإنكار ، فذلك طيش ، فرُبَّ شنعٌ حق ومألوفٌ محمودٌ كاذب ، والحق حقٌ في نفسه ، لا لقول الناس له ، ولنذكر دومًا قولهم: إذا تساوت الأذهان والهمم ، فمتأخرُ كل صنعةٍ خيرٌ من متقدمها”
― ابن النفيس, مخطوطة شرح معاني القانون

“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”
― Anais Nin

“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”
― Anais Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934

“There were always in me, two women at least, one woman desperate and bewildered, who felt she was drowning and another who would leap into a scene, as upon a stage, conceal her true emotions because they were weaknesses, helplessness, despair, and present to the world only a smile, an eagerness, curiosity, enthusiasm, interest.”
― Anais Nin

“I am the most tired woman in the world. I am tired when I get up. Life requires an effort I cannot make. Please give me that heavy book. I need to put something heavy like that on top of my head. I have to place my feet under the pillows always, so as to be able to stay on earth. Otherwise I feel myself going away, going away at a tremendous speed, on account of my lightness. I know that I am dead. As soon as I utter a phrase my sincerity dies, becomes a lie whose coldness chills me. Don't say anything, because I see that you understand me, and I am afraid of your understanding. I have such a fear of finding another like myself, and such a desire to find one! I am so utterly lonely, but I also have such a fear that my isolation be broken through, and I no longer be the head and ruler of my universe. I am in great terror of your understanding by which you penetrate into my world; and then I stand revealed and I have to share my kingdom with you.”
― Anais Nin

“We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them.”
― Anais Nin

“You carry away with you a reflection of me, a part of me. I dreamed you; I wished for your existence. You will always be a part of my life. If I love you, it must be because we shared, at some moment, the same imaginings, the same madness, the same stage.”
― Anais Nin

“I don’t really want to become normal, average, standard. I want merely to gain in strength, in the courage to live out my life more fully, enjoy more, experience more. I want to develop even more original and more unconventional traits”
― Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934

“She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God