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    Mahmoud Darwish
    “وَارمُوا عَلَى مَرْفَأ الجُرح وَردة”
    ― محمود درويش
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    Mahmoud Darwish
    “الجميلات هُنَّ القويّاتُ
    يأسٌ يضيء ُولا يحترق”
    ― محمود درويش, كزهر اللوز أو أبعد
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    Mahmoud Darwish
    “فالقهوة هي القراءةُ العلنية لكتاب النفس المفتوح .. والساحرة الكاشفة لما يحمله النهار من أسرار”
    ― محمود درويش, ذاكرة للنسيان
    tags: قهوة
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
    tags: freedom, responsibility
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    Mahmoud Darwish
    “:لي حكمة المحكوم بالإعدام
    لا أشياءَ أملكُها فتملكنى”
    ― محمود درويش
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: paraphrased, strength
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
    tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Can’t repeat the past?…Why of course you can!”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
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    Confucius
    “By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.”
    ― Confucious
    tags: wisdom
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    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand.”
    ― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
    tags: frankenstein, gothic, horror, mary-shelley
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    Gaston Bachelard
    “It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.”
    ― Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space
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    Hermann Hesse
    “Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.”
    ― Herman Hesse
    tags: steppenwolf
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    Mahmoud Darwish
    “ما اهدأ الموت لولا بكاؤك! ما اهدأ الموت لولا يداكِ اللتان تدقُان صدري لأرجع من حيث متُ.”
    ― محمود درويش, ورد أكثر
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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “Compassion is the basis of morality.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: belief, delusions, faith, insanity
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    Confucius
    “Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.”
    ― Confucious
    tags: beauty, everything, seeing
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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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    Charles Baudelaire
    “I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.”
    ― Charles Baudelaire
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    Charles Baudelaire
    “Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.”
    ― Charles Baudelaire
    tags: art, evil, goodness
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    Charles Baudelaire
    “He who looks through an open window sees fewer things than he who looks through a closed window.”
    ― Charles Baudelaire
    tags: vision
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    Charles Baudelaire
    “I should like the fields tinged with red, the rivers yellow and the trees painted blue. Nature has no imagination.”
    ― Charles Baudelaire
    tags: nature
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    Charles Baudelaire
    “I set out to discover the why of it, and to transform my pleasure into knowledge.”
    ― Charles Baudelaire
    tags: curiosity, knowledge, pleasure
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: friendship, lack-of-friendship, lack-of-love, love, marriage, unhappy-marriage
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    Gaston Bachelard
    “To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.”
    ― Gaston Bachelard
    tags: books, language, literature, poetry, reading, words
    181 likes

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    Homer
    “Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man.”
    ― Homer, The Odyssey
    tags: inspirational, life
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    Homer
    “Sing, O muse, of the rage of Achilles, son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans.”
    ― Homer, The Iliad
    tags: iliad-beginning
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    Gaston Bachelard
    “Rilke wrote: 'These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their growth it too increased.”
    ― Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space
    tags: 201, nature, rilke, space, trees
    193 likes

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    Gaston Bachelard
    “I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.”
    ― Gaston Bachelard , The Poetics of Space
    tags: dream, house, privacy, space
    252 likes

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    Vladimir Nabokov
    “And the rest is rust and stardust.”
    ― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
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    Vladimir Nabokov
    “It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.”
    ― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
    tags: humbert-humbert, love
    6120 likes



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