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“If people reach perfection they vanish, you know.”
― T.H. White, The Once and Future King

“People are good or half good or a quarter good, and it changes all the time- but even on the best day nobody's perfect.”
― Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin

“We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love.”
― Sigmund Freud

“حياتنا سلسلة متشابكة من الصدف الصغيرة التى قد يغير وقوع إحداها قبل الآخرى بثوان أوبعدها بثوان مجرى حياتنا كله”
― يوسف إدريس, البيضاء

“Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
― Albert Camus

“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
― Albert Camus

“Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?”
― Albert Camus

“Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.”
― Albert Camus

“There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

“The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.”
― Horace Walpole

“I think that everything should be made available to everybody, and I mean LSD, cocaine, codeine, grass, opium, the works. Nothing on earth available to any man should be confiscated and made unlawful by other men in more seemingly powerful and advantageous positions.”
― Charles Bukowski

“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