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“Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.”
― Robert Bresson

“Cinematography is a writing with images in mouvement and with sounds.”
― Robert Bresson, Notes on the Cinematographer

“Bring together things that have not yet been brought together and did not seem predisposed to be so.”
― Robert Bresson, Notes on the Cinematographer

“Be the first to see what you see as you see it.”
― Robert Bresson

“My movie is born first in my head, dies on paper; is resuscitated by the living persons and real objects I use, which are killed on film but, placed in a certain order and projected onto a screen, come to life again like flowers in water.”
― Robert Bresson, Notes on the Cinematographer

“The eye solicited alone makes the ear impatient, the ear solicited alone makes the eye impatient. Use these impatiences. Power of the cinematographer who appeals to the two senses in a governable way.
Against the tactics of speed, of noise, set tactics of slowness, of silence.”
― Robert Bresson

“When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best -- that is inspiration.”
― Robert Bresson

“Two types of films: those that employ the resources of the theater (actors, direction, etc...) and use the camera in order to reproduce; those that employ the resources of cinematography and use the camera to create”
― Robert Bresson , Notes on the Cinematographer

“Hide the ideas, but so that people find them. The most important will be the most hidden.”
― Robert Bresson, Notes on the Cinematographer

“The thing that matters is not what they show me but what they hide from me and, above all, what they do not suspect is in them.”
― Robert Bresson

“Laugh at a bad reputation. Fear a good one that you could not sustain.”
― Robert Bresson

“It is in its pure form that an art hits hard.”
― Robert Bresson

“Nothing more inelegant and ineffective than an art conceived in another art's form.”
― Robert Bresson, Notes on the Cinematographer

“إذا كان الكتاب الذي نقرأه لا يوقظنا بخبطة على جمجمتنا، فلماذا نقرأ الكتاب إذن؟ كي يجعلنا سعداء كما كتبت؟ يا إلهي، كنا سنصبح سعداء حتى لو لم تكن عندنا كتب، والكتب التي تجعلنا سعداء يمكن عند الحاجة أن نكتبها، إننا نحتاج إلى تلك الكتب التي تنزل علينا كالصاعقة التي تؤلمنا، كموت من نحبه أكثر مما نحب أنفسنا، التي تجعلنا نشعر وكأننا قد طردنا إلى الغابات بعيداً عن الناس، مثل الانتحار.
على الكتاب أن يكون كالفأس التي تحطم البحر المتجمد في داخلنا، هذا ما أظنه.”
― فرانز كافكا

“Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.”
― Franz Kafka

“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for? So that it will make us happy, as you write? Good Lord, we would be happy precisely if we had no books, and the kind of books that make us happy are the kind we could write ourselves if we had to. But we need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. That is my belief.”
― Franz Kafka

“I am free and that is why I am lost.”
― Franz Kafka

“Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.”
― franz kafka

“السعادة لها شكل واحد أمّا التعاسة فـتأتي بـكافة الـأشكال والـأحجام ، كما يقول تولستوي : "السعادة تشبيه أمّا التعاسة فـقصة.”
― هاروكي موراكامي, Kafka on the Shore

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

“Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“و الله ما طلعت شمس و لا غربت
إلا و حبك مقرون بأنفاسي

و لا جلست إلى قوم أحدثهم
إلا و أنت حديثي بين جلاسي

و لا ذكرتك محزونا ولا فرحا
إلا و أنت بقلبي بين وسواسي

و لا هممت بشرب الماء من عطش
إلا رأيت خيالا منك في الكاسِ

و لو قدرت على الإتيان جئتكم
سعيا على الوجه أو مشيا على الراسِ

و يا فتى الحي إن غنيت لي طربا
فغنني واسفا من قلبك القاسي

ما لي و للناس كم يلحونني سفها
ديني لنفسي و دين الناس للناسِ”
― الحلاج

“عجبتُ منك و منـّـي يا مُنـْيـَةَ المُتـَمَنّـِي
أدنيتـَني منك حتـّـى ظننتُ أنـّك أنـّــي
وغبتُ في الوجد حتـّى أفنيتنـَي بك عنـّــي
يا نعمتي في حياتــي و راحتي بعد دفنـــي
ما لي بغيرك أُنــسٌ من حيث خوفي وأمنـي
يا من رياض معانيـهْ قد حّويْـت كل فنـّـي
وإن تمنيْت شيْــــاً فأنت كل التمنـّـــي”
― الحلاج

“الـــعَيْـنُ تُبـْـصِرُ مَن تَهْوَى وتَفقده
ونَاظِرُ القَلْبِ لا يَخْلُو مِـــن الـنَظَر
إن كَانَ لَيْسَ مَعْى فَالذِكرُ مِنهُ مَعْي
يَرَاهُ قَلْبِى وإنّ غَابَ عَنْ بَصَرِي
ُالوَجْدُ يُطربُ مَن فِي الوَجْدِ رَاحتٌه
ُوالوَجْدُ عِنْدَ وُجُودِ الحَقِّ مَفَقُود
قَدْ كَانَ يُوحِشُني وَجدْي ويُؤنِسُني
ُلِرُؤيةِ وَجْدِ مَن فِي الوَجْدِ موجود”
― الحلاج

“لكنني لست مذنبا .. كيف يمكن أصلا أن يكون أي منا مذنبا، نحن بشر.”
― فرانتس كافكا, المحاكمة: رواية مصورة

“بعد هذا البلاء العظيم،
أي طقوس من الكلمات،
يمكن أن ترمّم الخراب ؟”
― سيلفيا بلاث , أكثر من طريقة لائقة للغرق

“Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.

(This quote is probably wrongly attributed to Sylvia Plath)”
― Sylvia Plath

“Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.”
― Vincent van Gogh

“And in the end, we were all just humans, drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.”
― Christopher Poindexter

“Not only did
I love her,
but I could tell
the universe loved
her, too.
More than others.
She was different.
After all; I would
be a fool not to
notice the way the
sunshine played with
her hair.”
― Christopher Poindexter