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“An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. "Can they be brought together?" This is a practical question. We must get down to it. "I despise intelligence" really means: "I cannot bear my doubts.”
― Albert Camus

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
― Marcel Proust

“Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.”
― Marcel Proust

“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
― Michael Cunningham, The Hours

“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

“When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“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

“Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
― Khaled Hosseini

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“The future is there... looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become.”
― William Gibson, Pattern Recognition

“All happiness depends on courage and work.”
― Honoré de Balzac

“Surely only boring people went in for conversations consisting of questions and answers. The art of true conversation consisted in the play of minds.”
― Ved Mehta, All for Love

“It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead, I feel painfully visible, and entirely ignored.”
― David Levithan, Every Day

“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.”
― Zelda Fitzgerald

“ ...اینکه می گویم مترجم نباید دیده شود وقتی به ترجمه ی ادبی می رسیم ممکن است حکم بی رحمانه ای باشد. شاید تسکین این درد این است که مترجم بداند در کار بسیار مهمی دخالت کرده است. او در تب و تاب و شور آفرینش با مؤلف و نویسنده وارد مشارکت شده است. مثل آهنکاری که در ساختن یک بنای فخیم معماری از او کمک بخواهیم اما بعد از اتمام کار دیگر تیرآهن ها را نمی بینیم. ترجمه به نظر من چنین سهمی از آفرینش می گیرد. یک چیزهایی از آفرینش در او هست... منتها اصل قضیه به نظر من این است که ترجمه آفرینش نیست. ترجمه مشارکت دورادور در اثری ست که قبلاً آفریده شده. اینجاست که بحث فنی آن پیش می آید. یعنی ترجمه یک کار بسیار دقیق فنی در انتقال یک اثر آفریده شده است. این امر دوقطبی بودن یا دولبه بودن کار ترجمه را نشان می دهد... یعنی شما از یک طرف در یک اثر آفرینشی دخالت دارید و از طرف دیگر باید هرچه کمتر دیده شوید. دلداری ای که به مترجم می شود داد این است که در یک کار بزرگ مشارکت دارد و دارد در کار سترگی دخالت می کند. بنابراین هرقدر فروتنی نشان بدهد باز هم از باد آن آفرینش اصلی چیزی به او می رسد.”
― مهدی سحابی

“You know how sometimes you lie in bed at night and think, “What if the law of gravity just wears out and lets go and I drift into space?” Does that ever make you anxious?”
― Elaine May

“Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.”
― Anton Chekhov

“If you obey all of the rules, you miss all of the fun.”
― Katharine Hepburn

“Cherish your wilderness.”
― Maxine Kumin

“Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.”
― Charles Dickens

“A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful.”
― Maurice Sendak

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“You will hear thunder and remember me,
and think: she wanted storms...”
― Anna Akhmatova

“Maybe we are all cabinets of wonders.”
― Brian Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret

“This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

“In the world I am
Always a stranger
I do not understand its language
It does not understand my silence”
― Bei Dao

“Art, art of any kind, shows that folks are trying.”
― Walter Kirn, Mission to America