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“می گویند فراموشی دفاع طبیعی ِ بدن است در برابر رنج . دردی که نوزاد هنگام عبور از آن دریچه‌ی تنگ ، متحمل می‌شود چنان شدید است که کودک ترجیح می‌دهد رنج زاده شده را برای همیشه از یاد ببرد ...”
― رضا قاسمی / Reza Ghasemi, همنوایی شبانه ارکستر چوبها

“Pero yo ya no soy yo
Ni mi casa es ya mi casa.

But now I am no longer I,
nor is my house any longer my house.
”
― Federico Garcia Lorca

“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.”
― Miguel de Unamuno

“از لیوان ها
به لیوان , شکسته فکر می کنی
از آدمها
به کسی که از دست داده ای
به کسی که به دست نیاورده ای
همیشه
چیزی که نیست
بهتر است”
― علیرضا روشن

“What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
― Oliver Goldsmith, The Citizen of the World, Or, Letters from a Chinese Philosopher, Residing in London, to His Friends in the Country, by Dr. Goldsmith

“The earth laughs in flowers.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“You become what you think about all day long.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Discussion is impossible with someone who claims not to seek the truth, but already to possess it.”
― Romain Rolland, Above The Battle

“We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past.”
― Miguel de Unamuno

“It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.”
― Miguel de Unamuno

“Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.”
― Miguel de Unamuno

“At times to be silent is to lie. You will win because you have enough brute force. But you will not convince. For to convince you need to persuade. And in order to persuade you would need what you lack: Reason and Right”
― Miguel de Unamuno

“The truth is that reason is the enemy of life.”
― Miguel de Unamuno, Tragic Sense of Life

“And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity.”
― Miguel de Unamuno, San Manuel Bueno, mártir, y tres historias más

“The skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches, as opposed to him who asserts and thinks that he has found.”
― Miguel de Unamuno

“Men shout to avoid listening to one another.”
― Miguel de Unamuno

“The less we read, the more harmful it is what we read.”
― Miguel de Unamuno

“You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. — 'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' — Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series

“هرچه قضاوت آنها درباره من سخت بوده ‌باشد نمی‌دانند که من پیشتر خودم را سخت‌تر قضاوت کرده‌ام”
― صادق هدایت, زنده به‌گور

“Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive in its presence and thereby eventually lose all ability to defend ourselves and those we love. In a modern economy it is impossible to seal oneself off from injustice.

If we have brains or courage, then we are blessed and called on not to frit these qualities away, standing agape at the ideas of others, winning pissing contests, improving the efficiencies of the neocorporate state, or immersing ourselves in obscuranta, but rather to prove the vigor of our talents against the strongest opponents of love we can find.

If we can only live once, then let it be a daring adventure that draws on all our powers. Let it be with similar types whos hearts and heads we may be proud of. Let our grandchildren delight to find the start of our stories in their ears but the endings all around in their wandering eyes.
The whole universe or the structure that perceives it is a worthy opponent, but try as I may I can not escape the sound of suffering.

Perhaps as an old man I will take great comfort in pottering around in a lab and gently talking to students in the summer evening and will accept suffering with insouciance. But not now; men in their prime, if they have convictions are tasked to act on them.”
― Julian Assange

“I was not ladylike, nor was I manly. I was something else altogether. There were so many different ways to be beautiful.”
― Michael Cunningham, A Home at the End of the World

“The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.”
― René Descartes