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    أحمد مطر
    “و المذيعون خِراف .. و الإذاعات خُرافة .. و عقول المستنيرين صناديق صِرافة .. كيف تأتينا النظافة؟”
    ― أحمد مطر
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    أحمد مطر
    “إذا كان الثوريّ نظيفاً... فلماذا تتسخ الثورة ؟!!”
    ― أحمد مطر
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    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “It's quite an undertaking to start loving somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment right at the start where you have to jump across an abyss: if you think about it you don't do it.”
    ― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
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    Kōbō Abe
    “Do you shovel to survive, or survive to shovel?”
    ― Kōbō Abe, The Woman in the Dunes
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    Kōbō Abe
    “One could not do without repetition in life, like the beating of the heart, but it was also true that the beating of the heart was not all there was to life.”
    ― Kōbō Abe, The Woman in the Dunes
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    Albert Camus
    “Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: absurdism
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    Albert Camus
    “Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source
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    Albert Camus
    “But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.”
    ― Albert Camus
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald
    tags: f-scott-fitzgerald
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
    tags: lost-innocence, memories
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    Thomas Pynchon
    “If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.”
    ― Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow
    tags: paranoia, proverbs, wit
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    رياض الصالح الحسين
    “أريد أن أضع بحراً/ في الزنزانة/ أريد أن أسرق الزنازين/ وألقيها في البحر/ أريد أن أمتلك مسدساً/ لأطلق النار على الذئاب/ أريد أن أكون ذئباً/ لأفترس من يطلقون النار/ أريد أن أختبئ في زهرة/ خوفاً من القاتل/ أريد أن يموت القاتل/ حينما يرى الأزهار/ أريد أن أفتح نافذة/ في كل جدار/ أريد أن أضع جداراً/ في وجه من يغلقون النوافذ/ أريد أن أكون زلزالا/ لأهز القلوب المكسورة/ أريد أن أدس في كل قلب/ زلزالاً من الحكمة/ أريد أن تكون الكلمة/ شجرة أو رغيفاً أو قبلة/ أريد لمن لا يحب الشجر/ والرغيف/ والقبلة/ أن يمتنع عن الكلام.”
    ― رياض الصالح الحسين, الأعمال الكاملة
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  • #13
    William Gibson
    “The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.”
    ― William Gibson, Neuromancer
    tags: first-lines
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  • #14
    Ray Bradbury
    “You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”
    ― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You
    tags: writing
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    أحمد مطر
    “أريد الصمت كي أحيا، ولكن الذي ألقاه ينطقني..”
    ― أحمد مطر
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    أحمد مطر
    “وضعوني في إناء ثم قالوا لي تأقلم
    و أنا لست بماءٍ
    أنا من طين السماء
    وإذا ضاق بي إنائي
    بنموي يتحطم !”
    ― أحمد مطر
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    John Steinbeck
    “Farewell has a sweet sound of reluctance. Good-by is short and final, a word with teeth sharp to bite through the string that ties past to the future.”
    ― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
    tags: farewell, goodbye, thoughtful
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    Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
    “A man sometimes devotes his life to a desire which he is not sure will ever be fulfilled. Those who laugh at this folly are, after all, no more than mere spectators of life.”
    ― Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Rashomon and Other Stories
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    Epictetus
    “For sheep don't throw up the grass to show the shepherds how much they have eaten; but, inwardly digesting their food, they outwardly produce wool and milk.”
    ― Epictetus, The Art of Living: The Classic Manual on Virtue, Happiness & Effectiveness
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    Oscar Wilde
    “It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: books, reading
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    Augustine of Hippo
    “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
    ― St. Augustine
    tags: allegory, books, broad-mindedness, classic, education, imagery, travel, world
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway, Men Without Women
    tags: love, pain, relationships, self
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    Arnold Lobel
    “I wonder if we are brave,” said Frog.
    Frog and Toad got out their head-shots and looked at them for a long time. “We look brave,” said Frog.
    “Yes, but are we?” asked Toad.”
    ― Arnold Lobel
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  • #24
    Kate DiCamillo
    “There ain't no way you can hold onto something that wants to go, you understand? You can only love what you got while you got it.”
    ― Kate DiCamillo, Because of Winn-Dixie
    tags: leaving, letting-go, love, loving, separating, separation
    1454 likes

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  • #25
    George Bernard Shaw
    “What you are to do without me I cannot imagine.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion
    tags: alone, leaving, loss, love
    267 likes

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  • #26
    Anita Shreve
    “To leave, after all, was not the same as being left.”
    ― Anita Shreve, The Pilot's Wife
    tags: anita-shreve, leaving, lesson, life, the-pilot-s-wife
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  • #27
    Shannon L. Alder
    “If you have to convince someone to stay with you then they have already left.”
    ― Shannon L. Alder
    tags: advice, boyfriends, choices, commonsense, convince, dating, girlfriends, leaving, love, marriage, marriage-101, men, relationships-101, self-worth, staying, stayingpositiveu-com, undecided, women
    178 likes

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  • #28
    Pablo Neruda
    “Tonight I can write the saddest lines
    I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.”
    ― Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
    tags: love, sadness
    4108 likes

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  • #29
    Sun Tzu
    “know yourself and you will win all battles”
    ― Sun Tzu
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  • #30
    Sun Tzu
    “So in war, the way is to avoid what is strong, and strike at what is weak.”
    ― Sun Tzu, The Art of War
    372 likes



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