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“You can’t always protect breakable things. Hearts and eggs will break but you keep going anyway, because science is asking questions and living is not being afraid of the answer.”
― Tae Keller, The Science of Breakable Things

“Science is asking questions. And living is not being afraid of the answer”
― Tae Keller, The Science of Breakable Things

“A scientist never apologizes for asking questions. Questions keep us alive.”
― Tae Keller, The Science of Breakable Things

“It's always so awkward when adults comment on your age. They look at you and say You're still so young or You're getting so old, and you want to shake your head and say I'm not young or old. I'm just me.”
― Tae Keller, The Science of Breakable Things

“Natalie, you aren't the captain because you do everything right and stay out of trouble. You're the captain because you bring us all together" -Twig”
― Tae Keller, The Science of Breakable Things

“Holidays, apparently, don’t make people happy. They just remind us of what we’re missing every other day of the year.”
― Tae Keller, The Science of Breakable Things

“درواقع چه کسی می‌تواند ادعا کند که ابدی بودن یک شادی، می‌تواند یک لحظه رنج بشری را جبران کند؟”
― Albert Camus, The Plague

“The wind sings of our nostalgia
and the starry sky ignores our dreams.
Each snow flake is a tear that fails to trickle

Silence is full of the unspoken,
of deeds not performed,
of confessions to secret love,
and of wonders not expressed.
Our truth is hidden in our silence,
Yours and mine.”
― Margot Bickel

“Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

“When I find a colour darker than black, I'll wear it. But until then, I'm wearing black!”
― Coco Chanel

“She was not yet dead. But I was already alone.”
― Marcel Proust, The Guermantes Way

“Hope is a passion for the possible.”
― Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling

“نوشتن برای تو،وقتی ندانی که برایت نوشته ام به چه درد می خورد ؟”
― Oriana Fallaci, زندگی جنگ و دیگر هیچ

“We must accept our pain
Change what we can
and laugh at the rest”
― Camille Paglia

“Wisdom is the fruit of a balanced development.”
― Alfred North Whitehead

“How could you give me life, and take from me all the inappreciable things that raise it from the state of conscious death? Where are the graces of my soul? Where are the sentiments of my heart? What have you done, oh, Father, What have you done with the garden that should have bloomed once, in this great wilderness here? Said louisa as she touched her heart.”
― Charles Dickens, Hard Times

“All language is but a poor translation.”
― Franz Kafka

“In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world.”
― Emil Cioran

“Is it possible that existence is our exile and nothingness our home?”
― Emil Cioran, Tears and Saints

“Sometimes I wish I were a cannibal – less for the pleasure of eating someone than for the pleasure of vomiting him.”
― Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

“Perhaps the only difference between me and other people is that I’ve always demanded more from the sunset. More spectacular colors when the sun hit the horizon. That’s perhaps my only sin.”
― Lars Von Trier

“Base yourself on what you feel, even when you alone feel it.”
― Henri Michaux, Tent Posts

“The mere ambition to write a poem is enough to kill it.”
― Henri Michaux

“He who hides his madman dies voiceless.”
― Henri Michaux

“Only learn with reservations. An entire life is not enough to unlearn what you naively, submissively, have allowed to be placed in your head---innocent one---without imagiging the consequences.”
― Henri Michaux, Tent Posts

“It is late now, I am a bit tired; the sky is irritated by stars. And I love you, I love you, I love you – and perhaps this is how the whole enormous world, shining all over, can be created – out of five vowels and three consonants.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Letters to Vera

“Yes, I need you, my fairy-tale. Because you are the only person I can talk with about the shade of a cloud, about the song of a thought — and about how, when I went out to work today and looked a tall sunflower in the face, it smiled at me with all of its seeds.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Letters to Vera

“You came into my life-not as one comes to visit (you know, “not taking one’s hat off”) but as one comes to a kingdom where all the rivers have been waiting for your reflection, all the roads, for your steps.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Letters to Vera

“چگونه بي‌قرار نباشم
مگر قرار نبود ...
چگونه دست دلم را بگيرم
و در كنار دل‌تنگي‌هايم
قدم بزنم
در اين خيابان
كه پر از چراغ و چشمك ماشين‌هاست
نه آقايان !
مسير من با شما يكي نيست
از سرعت خود نكاهيد .
من آداب دل‌بري نمي‌دانم
كرشمه بلد نيستم
من تنها مادری نگرانم
مادری نگران برای دخترم
مادری نگران برای مادرم
مادری نگران برای تو
كه سرفه می‌كردی
و صدايت
گرفته به گوش می‌رسيد ...”
― راضیه بهرامی خشنود

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde