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“How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot!
The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!
Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d”
― Alexander Pope, Eloisa to Abelard

“She thirsted for love, but found only a mirage. Some hearts are a desert you can die wandering in.”
― John Mark Green

“People have forgotten this truth," the fox said. "But you mustn’t forget it. You become responsible forever for what you’ve tamed. You’re responsible for your rose.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.”
― Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis

“Dear Leonard. To look life in the face. Always to look life in the face and to know it for what it is. At last to know it. To love it for what it is, and then, to put it away. Leonard. Always the years between us. Always the years. Always the love. Always the hours.”
― Michael Cunningham, The Hours

“There is no means of testing which decision is better, because there is no basis for comparison. We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always like a sketch. No, "sketch" is not quite a word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch for nothing, an outline with no picture.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“If we have only one life to live, we might as well not have lived at all.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“ای کاش می توانستند
از آفتاب یاد بگیرند
که بی دریغ باشند
در دردها و شادیهایشان
حتی
با نان خشکشان
و کاردهایشان را
جز از برایِ قسمت کردن
بیرون نیاورند”
― احمد شاملو / Ahmad Shamlou

“در خود
به جست وجویی پیگیر
همت نهاده ام
در خود به کاوشم
در خود
... ستمگرانه
من چاه میکنم
من نقب میزنم
من حفر میکنم”
― احمد شاملو

“Objects should not touch because they are not alive. You use them, put them back in place, you live among them: they are useful, nothing more. But they touch me, it is unbearable. I am afraid of being in contact with them as though they were living beasts.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

“هیچ کاری بی معنی تر از این نیست که بخواهی برای کسی که برایش مهم نیستی از خودت بگویی”
― فریبا وفی

“... به همین خاطر است که جان من پیوسته به سوی عهد عتیق و شکسپیر باز می گردد: آن جا حداقل احساس می کنی که موجودی انسانی سخن می گوید؛ آن جا مردم نفرت می ورزند، عشق می ورزند، مردم دشمنانشان را به قتل می رسانند و فرزندانشان را نسل بعد از نسل نفرین می کنند؛ آن جا مردم گناه می کنند.”
― Søren Kierkegaard, Either/Or: A Fragment of Life

“با مرگ بگریزم
تا کهکشان‌ها
زیرا با زندگی
راه چندان دوری
نمی‌توان رفت

::

with death
            i would elope
to the galaxies
because
     thus far
the path
         with life
stops”
― بیژن جلالی / Bizhan Jalali

“تنها این دو تو را از جمله ی رنجها می رهاند
اکنون برگزین
مرگ زودهنگام یا عشق طولانی.”
― فردریش نیچه

“جای مردان سیاست بنشانید درخت / تا هوا تازه شود”
― سهراب سپهری

“Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.”
― Sigmund Freud

“اگر باید زخمی داشته باشم
که نوازشم کنی
بگو تا تمام دلم را
شرحه شرحه کنم

زخم‌ها زیبایند
و زیباتر آن‌که
تیغ را هم تو فرود آورده باشی
تیغت سـِحر است و
نوازشت معجزه
و لبخندت
تنظیفی از فواره‌ی نور
و تیمار داری‌ات
کرشمه‌ای میان زخم و مرهم

عشق و زخم
از یک تبارند
اگر خویشاوندیم یا نه
من سراپا همه زخمم
تو سراپا
همه انگشت نوازش باش”
― حسين منزوي / Hosein Monzavi, مجموعه اشعار حسین منزوی

“هزاران کس خواهند گفت نمی‌شود
هزاران کس شکست تو را صلا خواهند داد.
هزاران کس مخاطرات راه را
یک‌ به یک برایت شماره خواهند کرد.
اما تو، کمر ببند و خندان، سرودخوان
بیا میانهٔ میدان
با ناشدنی درآویز
و آن را شدنی کن

ادوارد آلبرت گست
(برگرفته از کتاب کاروان امید، ترجمه محمد ابراهیم محجوب)”
― ادوارد آلبرت گست

“I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.”
― Voltaire

“دردها، اگر فرد را نشکنند، به او غرور می آموزند.”
― Søren Kierkegaard, The Seducer’s Diary

“آیا هیچ می‌دانید که اگر شما گیوتین را به جلو صحنه آورده‌اید
و آن را با این شادمانی و افتخار برافراشته و به آسمان رسانده‌اید
فقط برای این است که بریدن سر از همه کار آسان‌تر است
...و پروردن اندیشه در سر از همه کار دشوارتر”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read.”
― Raymond Carver

“I loved you so much once. I did. More than anything in the whole wide world. Imagine that. What a laugh that is now. Can you believe it? We were so intimate once upon a time I can't believe it now. The memory of being that intimate with somebody. We were so intimate I could puke. I can't imagine ever being that intimate with somebody else. I haven't been.”
― Raymond Carver, Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories

“It ought to make us feel ashamed when we talk like we know what we're talking about when we talk about love.”
― Raymond Carver

“I tell you, the one thing I hate is an absolutist. I hate absolutist ideologies, I hate absolutist aesthetics, I hate absolutist theologies, they’re the burden and bane of this world.”
― Tobias Wolff

“Whatever it is that makes closeness possible between people also puts them in the way of hard feelings if that closeness ends.”
― Tobias Wolff

“I recognized no obstacle to miraculous change but the incredulity of others. This was an idea that died hard, if it ever really died at all.”
― Tobias Wolff, This Boy's Life

“Taken to extremes, life is a process of reorientation after shame or glory and when anxiety sweeps in there is a relief at not having left any definite tracks.

Before you understand where the emotion is going to lead, you talk to anyone and everyone about the object of your love. All of a sudden, this stops. By then the ice is already thin and slippery. You realize that every word could expose your infatuation. Feigning indifference is as hard as acting normally and fundamentally the same thing.

There is a resistance in the party who wants to leave, a fear of the unknown, of the hassle and of changing one's mind. A party not wanting to be left must exploit that resistance. But then they must restrain their need for clarity and honesty. The matter must remain unformulated. A party not wanting to be left must leave it to the one wanting to go to express the change. That is the only way to keep a person who does not want to be with you. Hence the widespread silence in the relationships of the world.

Love needs no words. For a short period you can put your trust in wordless emotion. But in the long run there is no love without words and no love with words alone. Love is a hungry beast. It feeds off touch and repeated assurances.

The sense of desolation in a flat that your lover has just left is the most complete sense of desolation that exists.

Her desperation being real, she was extra-sensitive to the ways desperation could be expressed.

When the brain perceives contact as possible, every houris too long. That is the state of enslavement. The state in which the prospect of intoxication takes over the organism.”
― Lena Anderssson

“Things outside you are projections of what's inside you, and what's inside you is a projection of what's outside. So when you step into the labyrinth outside you, at the same time you're stepping into the labyrinth inside.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“The master is not the one who teaches; it's the one who suddenly learns.”
― Joao Guimaraes Rosa, Grande Sertao: Veredas