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    Albert Camus
    “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
    Walk beside me… just be my friend”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus
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    Albert Camus
    “To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.”
    ― Albert Camus
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    Albert Camus
    “In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: seasons, strength, trial, triumph
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    Patrick Süskind
    “Odors have a power of persuasion stronger than that of words, appearances, emotions, or will. The persuasive power of an odor cannot be fended off, it enters into us like breath into our lungs, it fills us up, imbues us totally. There is no remedy for it.”
    ― Patrick Süskind, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
    tags: odor, odors, perfume, perfumery, scent, sense-of-smell
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    Patrick Süskind
    “He possessed the power. He held it in his hand. A power stronger than the power of money or the power of terror or the power of death: the invincible power to command the love of mankind. There was only one thing that power could not do: it could not make him able to smell himself.”
    ― Patrick Süskind, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
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    Gabriel García Márquez
    “There is no greater glory than to die for love.”
    ― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
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    Haruki Murakami
    “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
    tags: books, thought
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    Jodi Picoult
    “After a certain point, a heart with so many stress fractures can never be anything but broken.”
    ― Jodi Picoult, Salem Falls
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    Jodi Picoult
    “Maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it.”
    ― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
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    Arthur Golden
    “At the temple there is a poem called "Loss" carved into the stone. It has three words, but the poet has scratched them out. You cannot read loss, only feel it.”
    ― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
    tags: death, loss
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    Amin Maalouf
    “لقد علمتني حياة الكتابة أن أرتاب من الكلمات ، فأكثرها شفافيةً غالبًا مايكون أكثر خيانة ”
    ― أمين معلوف
    tags: كتابة
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    Pablo Picasso
    “Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.”
    ― Pablo Picasso
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    Virginia Woolf
    “Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
    tags: freedom, women, writing
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    رضوى عاشور
    “واختزال الحياة إلى مأساة خالصة، منزلق إلى الكذب”
    ― رضوى عاشور, أطياف
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    Michael Cunningham
    “You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
    ― Michael Cunningham, The Hours
    tags: life, peace
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    فيلهلم رايش
    “تعتقد بأن الغاية تبرر الوسيلة, حتى أحقر الوسائل. أما أنا فإني أفول لك:الغاية هي الطريق و كل خطوة هذا اليوم هي حياتك غدا. الأهداف الكبيرة لا يمكنك أن تحققها بالوسائل الوضيعة . لقد أثبت ذلكفي كل انقلاب اجتماعي كبير وضاعة ولا انسانية الوسيلة تصيرك حقيرا ولا انسانيا و تجعل من الهدف مستحيلا.”
    ― فيلهلم رايش, خطاب إلى الرجل الصغير
    tags: اجتماعي, الأهداف, الثورة, الغاية, الوسيلة
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    عمرو صبحي
    “المأزق أننا - لاشعورياً ولا إرادياً - نبالغ في توقع ردود أفعال الآخرين بشكل غير منطقي، ننزل أنفسنا بمنزلة متضخمة، نعتقد أن لأفعالنا، كلماتنا، غيابنا، حضورنا تأثيراً مبالغاً فيه، رغم أنه لا شيء يطرأ على الكون”
    ― عمرو صبحي, يوميات كهل صغير السن
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  • #18
    “أسوأ الشرور التي قد تصادف المرء أن تساوره القناعة شيئاً فشيئا بأنه صار عاجزا .
    اذا اقتنع بالقضية فجأة، فلا خطر في ذلك فسوف ينساها أيضاً فجأة في صباح اليوم التالي. إنما السوء يتسرب إليه حين يكون الاقتناع ببطء وبكل حرص لأنه لن يجد حينئذ من ينزع هذه الفكرة من رأسه .”
    ― كاميلو خوسيه ثيلا, سحب عابرة
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    Gautama Buddha
    “You are the community now. Be a lamp for yourselves. Be your own refuge. Seek for no other. All things must pass. Strive on diligently. Don’t give up.”
    ― Buddha
    tags: buddha, confidence, lamp
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    C.J. Roberts
    “the only way to truly be safer, was to accept the dark”
    ― C.J. Roberts, Captive in the Dark
    tags: captive-in-the-dark, erotic, love
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    Gary Soto
    “The black asphalt wouls shimmer with vapors I had a theory about those vapors...not released by the sun but by a huge onion buried under the city. This onion made us cry... I thought about the giant onion, that remarkable bulb of sadness.”
    ― Gary Soto, Buried Onions
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    Nikos Kazantzakis
    “Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.”
    ― Nikos Kazantzakis
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “و تدلنا التجربة أن الحب ليس أن ينظر بعضنا إلى بعض ، وإنما أن ننظر سوياً في اتجاه واحد ..”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars
    tags: love
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    Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
    “It's an universal law-- intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound education breeds humility.”
    ― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
    tags: august-1914, ignorance, prejudice, tolerance
    1135 likes

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  • #25
    George R.R. Martin
    “The brightest flame casts the darkest shadow.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings
    tags: shadow
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  • #26
    Sylvia Plath
    “I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
    tags: beautiful, shadow, thing
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  • #27
    Robert Fanney
    “May your feet ever walk in the light of two suns... and may the moonshadow never fall on you... ”
    ― Robert Fanney
    tags: fantasy, light, luthiel, moon, mystery, shadow, suns, wisdom
    157 likes

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  • #28
    Simone de Beauvoir
    “She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir, The Mandarins
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  • #29
    Howard Zinn
    “There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.”
    ― Howard Zinn
    tags: nationalism, patriotism, war
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  • #30
    Louise Brooks
    “Writing is 1 percent inspiration, and 99 percent elimination.”
    ― Louise Brooks
    tags: brevity, on-writing, paraphrased
    38 likes



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