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“اگر زندگانی سپری نمی شد چقدر تلخ و ترسناک بود.”
― صادق هدایت

“آنچه زندگانی را زهرآلود می کند جنگ برای زندگی نیست، بلکه کشمکش سر چیزهای پوچ و بیهوده است.”
― صادق هدایت / Sadegh Hedayat

“No medicine cures what happiness cannot.”
― Gabriel García Márquez

“What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.”
― Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“There is always something left to love.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

“Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but ... life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.”
― Gabriel García Márquez

“A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.”
― Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“هرچه قضاوت آنها درباره من سخت بوده ‌باشد نمی‌دانند که من پیشتر خودم را سخت‌تر قضاوت کرده‌ام”
― صادق هدایت, زنده به‌گور

“نمی شود که تو باشی من عاشق تو نباشم نمی شود که تو باشی
درست همینطور که هستی و من هزار بار بهتر از این باشم و باز هزار بار عاشق تو نباشم
نمی شود می دانم
نمی شود که بهاراز تو سر سبز تر باشد”
― نادر ابراهیمی / Nader Ebrahimi

“اگر مرگ نبود همه ارزویش میکردند”
― صادق هدایت

“گاهی خنده بیخ گلویم را میگیرد، آخرش هیچکس نفهمید درد من چیست، همه گول خوردند.”
― صادق هدایت / Sadegh Hedayat

“کسانی هستند که از بیست سالگی شروع به جان کندن می کنند.”
― صادق هدایت / Sadegh Hedayat

“سایه ام هست که مرا وادار به حرف زدن می کند، فقط او می تواند مرا بشناسد.”
― صادق هدایت / Sadegh Hedayat

“انسان به واسطه خودپسندی اش گمان می کند تمام موجودات برای وجود او پا به عرصه وجود گذاشته و آنها را برای کشتن و خوردن آفریده اند!”
― صادق هدایت / Sadegh Hedayat

“برای من بزرگترین معجزه همین است که وجود دارم.”
― صادق هدایت / Sadegh Hedayat

“تنها هنر است که با حقیقت رابطه دارد.”
― صادق هدایت / Sadegh Hedayat

“I write only for my shadow which is cast on the wall in front of the light. I must introduce myself to it.”
― Sadegh Hedayat, The Blind Owl

“But when the strong were too weak to hurt the weak, the weak had to be strong enough to leave.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“She had an overwhelming desire to tell him, like the most banal of women. Don't let me go, hold me tight, make me your plaything, your slave, be strong! But they were words she could not say.

The only thing she said when he released her from his embrace was, "You don't know how happy I am to be with you." That was the most her reserved nature allowed her to express.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“We all need someone to look at us. we can be divided into four categories according to the kind of look we wish to live under. the first category longs for the look of an infinite number of anonymous eyes, in other words, for the look of the public. the second category is made up of people who have a vital need to be looked at by many known eyes. they are the tireless hosts of cocktail parties and dinners. they are happier than the people in the first category, who, when they lose their public, have the feeling that the lights have gone out in the room of their lives. this happens to nearly all of them sooner or later. people in the second category, on the other hand, can always come up with the eyes they need. then there is the third category, the category of people who need to be constantly before the eyes of the person they love. their situation is as dangerous as the situation of people in the first category. one day the eyes of their beloved will close, and the room will go dark. and finally there is the fourth category, the rarest, the category of people who live in the imaginary eyes of those who are not present. they are the dreamers.”
― Milan Kundera

“The brain appears to possess a special area which we might call poetic memory and which records everything that charms or touches us, that makes our lives beautiful ... Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“There is a certain part of all of us that lives outside of time. Perhaps we become aware of our age only at exceptional moments and most of the time we are ageless.”
― Milan Kundera

“To laugh is to live profoundly.”
― Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

“Love is a battle," said Marie-Claude, still smiling. "And I plan to go on fighting. To the end."
Love is a battle?" said Franz. "Well, I don't feel at all like fighting." And he left.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“The worth of a human being lies in the ability to extend oneself, to go outside oneself, to exist in and for other people.”
― Milan Kundera, Laughable Loves

“مردم همه
تو را به خدا
سوگند می‌دهند

اما برای من
تو آن همیشه‌ای
که خدا را به تو
سوگند می‌دهم”
― قیصر امین‌پور

“دیروز ما زندگی را به بازی گرفتیم،
امروز او ما را . . .
فردا . . . ؟”
― قیصر امین‌پور

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche