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“One man doesn't believe in god at all, while the other believes in him so thoroughly that he prays as he murders men!”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

“I think that if one is faced by inevitable destruction -- if a house is falling upon you, for instance -- one must feel a great longing to sit down, close one's eyes and wait, come what may...”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

“As far as I am concerned, I resign from humanity. I no longer want to be, nor can still be, a man. What should I do? Work for a social and political system, make a girl miserable? Hunt for weaknesses in philosophical systems, fight for moral and esthetic ideals? It’s all too little. I renounce my humanity even though I may find myself alone. But am I not already alone in this world from which I no longer expect anything?”
― Emil Cioran, On the Heights of Despair

“One can experience loneliness in two ways: by feeling lonely in the world or by feeling the loneliness of the world.”
― Emil Cioran

“- من أين جاءتك ملامح الزهو هذه؟
- لقد أفلحتُ في البقاء حيًا كما ترون، على الرغم من ليال وليالٍ عشتها اسأل إن كنت سأقتل نفسي عند الفجر.”
― Emil Cioran, المياه كلها بلون الغرق

“في قلبه ضجيج
كأنَّ مسافرين يحتفلون في حافلة
في قلبه
ولا يعرف حافلة ولا مسافرين
ولا يدري
أنَّ في قلبه طريقاً.”
― وديع سعادة, من أخذ النظرة التي تركتها أمام الباب؟

“الذكرى ثلج
لا يُضمن الوقوفُ فوقه طويلاً

إرحل.”
― وديع سعادة, ليس للمساء إخوة

“الذين أقاموا طويلاً معنا تركوا بقعًا على قماش ذاكرتنا لا نعرف كيف نمحوها.بقع مؤلمة،أينما كان على المقاعد، بحيث لم يعد يمكننا الجلوس.
المقيمون طويلاً يسلبون مقاعدنا. يحوّلون أثاث بيوتنا إلى قِطعٍ منهم. بحيث نجلس، إذا جلسنا، على ضلوعهم، على عظامهم.
يسحق المقيمون المقيمين. أما العابرون فلا يسحقون أحدًا ولا أحد يسحقهم. لا يطأون على كائنات ولا يُثقلون خطوًا على أرض. حتى الهواء لا يلمحهم غير لحظة.”
― وديع سعادة, غبار

“It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object. ”
― Albert Camus

“Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“A person who longs to leave the place where he lives is an unhappy person.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness, and yet I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them.”
― Frédéric Chopin

“It is dreadful when something weighs on your mind, not to have a soul to unburden yourself to. You know what I mean. I tell my piano the things I used to tell you.”
― Frédéric Chopin

“I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, The Words: The Autobiography of Jean-Paul Sartre

“the worst part about being lied to is knowing you werent worth the truth”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

“وهذه العاصفة في الرأس كيف لا تحرّك غصنًا؟”
― وديع سعادة, ليس للمساء إخوة

“كيف يمشي واحدٌ إذا فقد شخصًا! أنا، حين فقدت شخصًا، توقفت. كان هو الماشي وأنا تابعه. كنت الماشي فيه.و حين توقَّف، لم تعُدْ لي قدمان.”
― وديع سعادة, محاولة وصل ضفتين بصوت

“كلما ازددنا معرفة ازددنا شكًّا، فكل معرفة شك.
ومن يعرف أكثر يقلق أكثر، وييأس أكثر، ويهلك أكثر”
― وديع سعادة, غبار

“A man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future.”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

“A man is more a man through the things he keeps to himself than through those he says.”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

“If you marry, you will regret it; if you do not marry, you will also regret it; if you marry or do not marry, you will regret both; Laugh at the world’s follies, you will regret it, weep over them, you will also regret that; laugh at the world’s follies or weep over them, you will regret both; whether you laugh at the world’s follies or weep over them, you will regret both. Believe a woman, you will regret it, believe her not, you will also regret that; believe a woman or believe her not, you will regret both; whether you believe a woman or believe her not, you will regret both. Hang yourself, you will regret it; do not hang yourself, and you will also regret that; hang yourself or do not hang yourself, you will regret both; whether you hang yourself or do not hang yourself, you will regret both. This, gentlemen, is the sum and substance of all philosophy.”
― Søren Kierkegaard, Either/Or: A Fragment of Life

“I have never voted in my life... I have always known and understood that the idiots are in a majority so it's certain they will win.”
― Louis-Ferdinand Céline

“My trouble is insomnia. If I had always slept properly, I'd never have written a line.”
― Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Death on the Installment Plan

“I hadn't found out yet that mankind consists of two very different races, the rich and the poor. It took me ... and plenty of other people . . . twenty years and the war to learn to stick to my class and ask the price of things before touching them, let alone setting my heart on them.”
― Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night