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“You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

tags: philosophy, wisdom

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“There is not always a good guy. Nor is there always a bad one. Most people are somewhere in between.”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

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“Stories are wild creatures, the monster said. When you let them loose, who knows what havoc they might wreak?”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

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#4

“The best way to get even with anyone is to put them in the rearview mirror on your way to something better.”
― Joe Hill, Horns

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#5

“You think you know someone. But mostly you just know what you want to know.”
― Joe Hill, Horns

tags: life-lessons

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#6

“ياللسخرية .. الإنسان لمجرد أنه خلق عند خط الاستواء ،بعض المجانين يعتبرونه عبداً وبعضهم يعتبره إلهاً .أين الاعتدال؟! أين الاستواء
؟!”
― الطيب صالح, موسم الهجرة إلى الشمال

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“نحن بمقاييس العالم الصناعي الأوروبي فلاحون فقراء لكني حين أعانق جدي احس بالغنى كأنني نغمة من دقات الكون نفسه”
― الطيب صالح

tags: الطيب-صالح-أقوال

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#8

“إنك يا سيد مصطفى سعيد رغم تفوقك العلمي رجل غبي، إن في تكوينك الروحي بقعة مظلمة، لقد بددت أعظم طاقة يمنحها الله للناس : طاقة الحب”
― الطيب صالح, Season of Migration to the North

tags: الحب, السعادة, الطيب-صالح, الله, الناس, ذكاء, طاقة, غباء

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#9

“Everyone who is educated today wants to sit at a comfortable desk under a fan and live in an air-conditioned house surrounded by a garden, coming and going in an American car as wide as the street. If we do not tear out this disease by the roots we shall have with us a bourgeoisie that is in no way connected with the reality of our life...”
― Tayeb Salih, Season of Migration to the North

tags: bourgeois, bourgeoisie, education, expectations, society

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#10

“ها أنتم الآن تؤمنون بخرافات من نوع جديد : خرافة التصنيع ،خرافة التأميم ، خرافة الوحدة العربية ،خرافة الوحدة الإفريقية . إنكم كالأطفال تؤمنون أن في جوف الأرض كنزاً ستحصلون عليه بمعجزة ، وستحلون جميع مشاكلكم ، وتقيمون فردوساً . أوهام . أحلام يقظة . عن طريق الحقائق والأرقام والإحصائيات ، يمكن أن تقبلوا واقعكم وتتعايشوا معه وتحاولوا التغيير في حدود طاقاتكم . وقد كان بوسع رجل مثل مصطفى سعيد أن يلعب دورا لا بأس به في هذا السبيل ، لو أنه لم يتحوّل إلى مهرّج بين يدي حفنة من الإنكليز المعتوهين”
― الطيب صالح, موسم الهجرة إلى الشمال

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#11

“كان المكان صامتا .. لا كما تنعدم الضجة .. ولكن كأن النطق لم يخلق بعد”
― الطيب صالح

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“Each person who ever was or is or will be has a song. It isn't a song that anybody else wrote. It has its own melody, it has its own words. Very few people get to sing their song. Most of us fear that we cannot do it justice with our voices, or that our words are too foolish or too honest, or too odd. So people live their song instead.”
― Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys

tags: anansi-boys

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#13

“Evil exists in us all, Torak. Some fight it. Some feed it. That's how it's always been.”
― Michelle Paver

tags: inspirational

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#14

“Fear is the loneliest feeling. You can be in a throng of people, but if you're afraid, you're on your own.”
― Michelle Paver, Oath Breaker

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#15

“There's always a choice,' said Torak, and walked backward off the cliff.”
― Michelle Paver

tags: inspirational

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#16

“Everybody has a heart that can be touched by something.”
― Naoki Higashida, The Reason I Jump: the Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism

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#17

“When you see an object, it seems that you see it as an entire thing first, and only afterwards do its details follow on. But for people with autism, the details jump straight out at us first of all, and then only gradually, detail by detail, does the whole image float up into focus.”
― Naoki Higashida, The Reason I Jump: the Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism

tags: autism, autistic-author

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#18

“On our own we simply don't know how to get things done the same way you do things. But, like everyone else, we want to do the best we possibly can. When we sense you've given up on us, it makes us feel miserable. So please keep helping us, through to the end.”
― Naoki Higashida, The Reason I Jump: the Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism

tags: autism

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#19

“God save us from people who mean well.”
― Vikram Seth, A Suitable Boy

tags: god, good-intentions, humanity, religion

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#20

“I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.”
― Vikram Seth, From Heaven Lake: Travels Through Sinkiang and Tibet

tags: future-nostalgias, nostalgia

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“But I too hate long books: the better, the worse. If they're bad they merely make me pant with the effort of holding them up for a few minutes. But if they're good, I turn into a social moron for days, refusing to go out of my room, scowling and growling at interruptions, ignoring weddings and funerals, and making enemies out of friends. I still bear the scars of Middlemarch.”
― Vikram Seth, A Suitable Boy

tags: reading

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#22

“And how shall I think of you?' He considered a moment and then laughed. 'Think of me with my nose in a book!”
― Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

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#23

“Can a magician kill a man by magic?” Lord Wellington asked Strange.
Strange frowned. He seemed to dislike the question. “I suppose a magician might,” he admitted, “but a gentleman never could.”
― Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

tags: gentleman, honor, killing, magic

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#24

“Time and I have quarrelled. All hours are midnight now. I had a clock and a watch, but I destroyed them both. I could not bear the way they mocked me.”
― Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

tags: insanity, madness, time

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#25

“We all make mistakes but one has to move on.”
― Jeffrey Archer

tags: jeffrey-archer, mistakes

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#26

“Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.”
― Sophocles

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#27

“One word
Frees us of all the weight and pain of life:
That word is love.”
― Sophocles

tags: love, pain

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#28

“All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.”
― Sophocles, Antigone

tags: change, character, course, crime, failure, mistakes, pride, yield

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#29

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.”
― Plato

tags: attributed-no-source, compassion, kindness

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#30

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
― Socrates

tags: knowledge, wisdom

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