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“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.”
― Heraclitus

“Now, perhaps, we are in a better position to understand the abyss separating Sabina and Franz: he listened eagerly to the story of her life and she was equally eager to hear the story of his, but although they had a clear understanding of the logical meaning of the words they exchanged, they failed to hear the semantic susurrus of the river flowing through them.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“Yet each man kills the thing he loves,
By each let this be heard,
Some do it with a bitter look,
Some with a flattering word,
The coward does it with a kiss,
The brave man with a sword!

Some kill their love when they are young,
And some when they are old;
Some strangle with the hands of Gold:
The kindest use a knife, because
The dead so soon grow cold.

Some love too little, some too long,
Some sell and others buy;
Some do the deed with many tears,
And some without a sigh:
For each man kills the thing he loves,
Yet each man does not die.”
― Oscar Wilde, Selected Poems of Oscar Wilde including the Ballad of Reading Gaol

“گاهی که خاکستری میشوی تکلیفت را با خودت نمیدانی، هیچ چیز خوشحالت نمیکند، از چیزی هم نمیرنجی،فرقی نمیکند که بعدش چی میشود.
گاهی بی آنکه هرگز به چیزی فکر کرده باشی خوابش را می بینی، و بعد هی از خودت می پرسی تعبیر این خواب چیست؟؟ حالت خوش نیست،بد هم نیست، ولی با یک کلمه یا یک تصویر شبت زیبا می شود، یا چنان از تلخی روزت مکدری که دلت می خواهد دوباره بخوابی و به همان خواب برگردی...
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― عباس معروفی, تماماً مخصوص

“Write hard and clear about what hurts.”
― Ernest Hemingway