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#1

“I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.”
― E.M. Forster, Howards End

tags: motherhood, peace-on-earth

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#2

“ينبغي أن نميز بين المتعلم والمثقف، فالمتعلم هو من تعلم أموراً لم تخرج عن نطاق الإطار الفكري الذي اعتاد عليه منذ صغره. فهو لم يزدد من العلم إلا مازاد في تعصبه وضيّق في مجال نظره. هو قد آمن برأي من الآراء أو مذهب من المذاهب فأخذ يسعى وراء المعلومات التي تؤيده في رأيه وتحرّضه على الكفاح في سبيله. أما المثقف فهو يمتاز بمرونة رأيه وباستعداده لتلقي كل فكرة جديدة وللتأمل فيها ولتملي وجه الصواب منها.”
― علي الوردي, خوارق اللاشعور: أو أسرار الشخصية الناجحة

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#3

“It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot

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#4

“I almost do not exist now and I know it; God knows what lives in me in place of me.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

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#5

“Pass us by, and forgive us our happiness”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

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#6

“If I had had the power to prevent my own birth I should certainly never have consented to accept existence under such ridiculous conditions.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot

tags: existence

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#7

“I don't like being with grown-up people. I've known that a long time. I don't like it because I don't know how to get on with them.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot

tags: adults, growing-up, kids, nostalgia, teach, teachers, teaching, youth

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#8

“Do you know, to my thinking it's a good thing sometimes to be absurd; it's better in fact, it makes it easier to forgive one another, it's easier to be humble. One can't understand everything at once, we can't begin with perfection all at once! In order to reach perfection one must begin by being ignorant of a great deal. And if we understand things too quickly, perhaps we shan't understand them thoroughly.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot

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#9

“Some people have luck, and everything comes out right with them; others have none, and never a thing turns out fortunately.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot

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#10

“Nothing helps a man to reform like thinking of the past with regret.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot

tags: reform, regret, the-past

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#11

“And how can one love two at once? With two different kinds of love? That’s interesting . . . poor idiot”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot

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#12

“Through children the soul is healed…”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot

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#13

“How can one deceive these dear little birds, when they look at one so sweetly and confidingly? I call them birds because there is nothing in the world better than birds!”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot

tags: birds, nature

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#14

“I used to watch the line where earth and sky met, and longed to go and seek there the key of all mysteries, thinking that I might find there a new life, perhaps some great city where life should be grander and richer—and then it struck me that life may be grand enough even in a prison.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot

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“إنكِ تبلغين من الجمال أنّ المـرء لا يجرؤ أن يـنظرَ إليكِ.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot

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#16

“وكان يشمئز من مجرد التفكير في محاولة الإجابة عن الأسئلة التي تتردد في قلبه وذهنه، وكان يقول لنفسه وهو في شبه ذهول: "لست أنا الملوم عن هذا كله.. الأبله.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot

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#17

“A dead man has no age”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot

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#18

“Very well, then there's an experiment, and the thing is proved; one cannot live and count each moment; say what you like, but one cannot.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot

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#19

“And indeed, what aim in life is more important and sacred than a father’s? To what should one adhere, if not to one’s family?”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot

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#20

“The law of self-destruction and the law of self-preservation are equally strong in mankind!”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot

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#21

“I swear to you that I am not quite such an ass as I like to appear sometimes, although I am rather an ass, I admit.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot

tags: dostoyevsky, evgenie, inspirational, the-idiot

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#22

“Beauty will save the world.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

tags: beauty

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#23

“But I'll add, that there is something at the bottom of every new human thought, every thought of genius, or even every earnest thought that springs up in any brain, which can never be communicated to others, even if one were to write volumes about it and were explaining one's idea for thirty-five years; there's something left which cannot be induced to emerge from your brain, and remains with you forever; and with it you will die, without communicating to anyone perhaps the most important of your ideas”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot

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#24

“Lighting new cigarettes,
pouring more
drinks.

It has been a beautiful
fight.

Still
is.”
― Charles Bukowski, You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

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#25

“Love and loss share the same unmade bed.”
― Michael Faudet, Dirty Pretty Things

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#26

“the worst thing," he told me,
"is bitterness, people end up so
bitter.”
― Charles Bukowski, You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

tags: bitter, bitterness, bukowski, death, in-the-end, individuality, life, love, personality, poem, poetry, self, soul

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#27

“she wasn't very
interesting
but few people
are.”
― Charles Bukowski, You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

tags: boring, bukowski, conversation, death, family, humanity, interesting, life, love, people, poem, poetry, society, women

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#28

“and even the trees we walked
under
seemed
less than
trees
and more like everything
else.”
― Charles Bukowski, You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

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#29

“it does seem
the more we drink
the better the words
go.”
― Charles Bukowski, You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

tags: alcohol, alcoholic, alcoholism, anxiety, bukowski, death, drinking, friendship, humanity, life, love, poem, poetry, self-help, self-medication, society, words

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#30

“I paid, got up, walked
to the door, opened
it.

I heard the man
say, "that guy's
nuts."

out on the street I
walked north
feeling
curiously
honored.”
― Charles Bukowski, You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

tags: bukowski, crazy, death, funny, honor, irony, life, mental, poem, poetry, self, soul

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