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“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.”
― George Burns

“My fear of life is necessary to me, as is my illness. Without anxiety and illness, I am a ship without a rudder. My art is grounded in reflections over being different from others. My sufferings are part of my self and my art. They are indistinguishable from me, and their destruction would destroy my art. I want to keep those sufferings.”
― Edvard Munch

“I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.”
― Antonio Gramsci, Antonio Gramsci: Prison Letters

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

“the world is neither meaningful, nor absurd. it quite simply is, and that, in any case, is what is so remarkable about it.”
― Robbe-Grillet Alain

“When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your heart, and it is very easy to miss it. ”
― Boris Pasternak

“وطن
میزی چوبی‌ست
که گردِ آن نشستیم و چای نوشیدیم
پیش از آنکه مأموران اداره‌ی مهاجرت ما را بیابند”
― الیاس علوی

“اصفهان آزارم می‌داد. من کاری به تهران نداشتم. نه دوستش داشتم و نه کاری به کارش. او هم به من همین‌طور. اما اصفهان نه. به من کار داشت. من هم به او. هر جا که پا می‌گذاشتم، چیزی بود که آزارم می‌داد. چه چیزی که به همان صورتی که از بچگی دیده بودم هنوز مانده بود و چه چیزی که از آن صورت درآمده بود و چیز دیگر شده بود. و همه‌ی چیزهایی که در اصفهان بود یکی از این دوتا چیز بود. خیابان‌های پهنی که به جای کوچه‌های باریکِ سابق کشیده بودند همان‌قدر غم‌انگیز بود که کوچه‌های باریک و محله‌های قدیمی دست‌نخورده.”
― جعفر مدرس صادقي / Jafar Modarres Sadeghi, گاوخونی

“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones

“First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Socialist.

Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.”
― Martin Niemoller

“My pet, the world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business" - Rhett Butler”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

“It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

“با مرگ بگریزم
تا کهکشان‌ها
زیرا با زندگی
راه چندان دوری
نمی‌توان رفت

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with death
            i would elope
to the galaxies
because
     thus far
the path
         with life
stops”
― بیژن جلالی / Bizhan Jalali