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“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
― Michael Cunningham, The Hours

“If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.”
― Virginia Woolf

“Books are the mirrors of the soul.”
― Virginia Woolf, Between the Acts

“I wanted to...feel hatred and love, despair and tedium-- all those simple, yet foolish things that make up everyday life but that give pleasure to your existence. If one day I could get out of here, I would allow myself to be crazy, Everyone is indeed crazy, but the craziest are the ones who don't know they are crazy; they just keep repeating what others tell them to.”
― Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die

“Insanity is the inability to communicate your ideas. It's as if you were in a foreign country, able to see and understand everything that's going on around you but incapable of explaining what you need to know or of being helped, because you don't understand the language they speak there. We've all felt that. And all of us, one way or another, are insane.”
― Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die

“She will remain sane and she will live as she was meant to live, richly and deeply, among others of her kind, in full possession and command of her gifts.”
― Michael Cunningham, The Hours

“Rien n'est plus beau qu'un corps nu. Le plus beau vêtement qui puisse habiller une femme ce sont les bras de l'homme qu'elle aime. Mais, pour celles qui n'ont pas eu la chance de trouver ce bonheur, je suis là.”
― Yves Saint Laurent

“She died in a fire. I miss her like you... If I was underwater, I wouldn't miss oxygen that much.”
― Dennis Lehane, Shutter Island

“Which would be worse, to live as a monster or to die as a good man?”
― Dennis Lehane, Shutter Island

“أنا عنك ما أخبرتهم..لكنهم
لمحوك تغتسلين في أحداقي
أنا عنك ما كلمتهم..لكنهم
قرأوك في حبري وفي أوراقي
للحب رائحة..وليس بوسعها
ألا تفوح مزارع الدراق”
― نزار قباني, كتاب الحب

“There's not a drug on earth can make life meaningful”
― Sarah Kane, 4.48 Psychosis

“It is myself I have never met, whose face is pasted on the underside of my mind.”
― Sarah Kane, 4.48 Psychosis

“مؤمنة أنا بأن لكل شخص فينا (تجارب) حب
لكن في حياة كل منا (حكاية حب) واحدة لا تتكرر”
― أثير عبدالله النشمي, أحببتك أكثر مما ينبغي

“إن قـلبـي لــبــلادي لا لحزبٍ أو زعيمِ
لم أبِعـهُ لشقيـقٍ أو صديقٍ لي حميمِ
لـيـس مـنـي لو أراه مرَّةً غيـرَ سليـم
ولساني كـفـؤادي نيطَ منه بالـصَّـمـيـم
وغدي يُشبه يومي وحديثي كقديمـي
لـم أَهبْ غـيـظَ كريم لا ولا كيْـدَ لـئـيـم
غايتي خدمةُ قومي بشقائي أو نعيمي”
― إبراهيم طوقان

“What would men be without women? Scarce, sir...mighty scarce.”
― Mark Twain