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“You will find as you grow older that the first thing needful to make the world a tolerable place to live in is to recognize the inevitable selfishness of humanity. You demand unselfishness from others, which is a preposterous claim that they should sacrifice their desires to yours. Why should they? When you are reconciled to the fact that each is for himself in the world you will ask less from your fellows. They will not disappoint you, and you will look upon them more charitably. Men seek but one thing in life -- their pleasure.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

“Memory, I realize, can be an unreliable thing; often it is heavily coloured by the circumstances in which one remembers, and no doubt this applies to certain of the recollections I have gathered here. ”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, A Pale View of Hills

“Then she lowered her arm and the gate closed behind her. That arm suddenly falling and the metallic clank of the gate shutting made me understand that from one moment to another one can lose heart.”
― Patrick Modiano, Honeymoon

“People don’t come back any more. Haven’t you noticed that, Monsieur?”
― Patrick Modiano, Honeymoon

“Au milieu de l'hiver, j'ai découvert en moi un invincible été.”
― Albert Camus

“زندگی رسم خوشایندی است
زندگی بال و پری دارد با وسعت مرگ
پرشی دارد اندازه عشق
زندگی چیزی نیست که لب طاقچه عادت از یادمن و تو برود
زندگی جذبه دستی است که می چیند
زندگی نوبر انجیر سیاه در دهان گس تابستان است
زندگی بعد درخت است به چشم حشره
زندگی تجربه شب پره در تاریکی است
زندگی حس غریبی است که یک مرغ مهاجر دارد
زندگی سوت قطاری است که درخواب پلی می پیچد
زندگی دیدن یک باغچه از شیشه مسدود هواپیماست
خبر رفتن موشک به فضا
لمس تنهایی ماه
فکر بوییدن گل در کره ای دیگر
زندگی شستن یک بشقاب است
زندگی یافتن سکه دهشاهی در جوی خیابان است
زندگی مجذور اینه است
زندگی گل به توان ابدیت
زندگی ضرب زمین در ضربان دل ما
زندگی هندسه ساده و یکسان نفسهاست”
― سهراب سپهری

“یخ بزن،یخ بزن ای آسمان گرفته،
تویی که هرگز این گونه گاز نمیزنی
چون نیکی های فراموش شده،
هرچند آبهارا یخ میبندی،
لیک مانند دوستی بی تفاوت،
آن چنان مجروح نمیکنی...
آهای!بخوانیم!آهای!زیر درخت راج سبز...”
― ویلیام شکسپیر

“Animula vagula blandula
Hospes comesque corporis
Quae nunc abibis? In Loca
Pallidula rigida nudula
nec ut soles dabis Iocos.

Little soul, you charming little wanderer, my body's guest and partner,
where are you off to now?
somewhere without colour, savage and bare;
You'll crack no more of your jokes once you're there.”
― Hadrian

“Ah, what happiness it is to be with people who are all happy, to press hands, press cheeks, smile into eyes.”
― Katherine Mansfield

“Curiosity is gluttony. To see is to devour.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“We dance for laughter, we dance for tears, we dance for madness, we dance for fears, we dance for hopes, we dance for screams, we are the dancers, we create the dreams.”
― Albert Einstein

“Failure is so common a human experience that what distinguishes us from one another is not that we fail but rather how we respond when we do.”
― Guy Winch, Emotional First Aid: Practical Strategies for Treating Failure, Rejection, Guilt, and Other Everyday Psychological Injuries

“For me the real healers were seclusion and time.”
― William Styron, Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness