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“Hate can be a deeply stimulating emotion. The world becomes easier to understand and much less terrifying if you divide everything and everyone into friends and enemies, we and they, good and evil. The easiest way to unite a group isn't through love, because love is hard, It makes demands. Hate is simple. So the first thing that happens in a conflict is that we choose a side, because that's easier than trying to hold two thoughts in our heads at the same time. The second thing that happens is that we seek out facts that confirm what we want to believe - comforting facts, ones that permit life to go on as normal. The third is that we dehumanize our enemy.”
― Fredrik Backman, Beartown

“All adults have days when we feel completely drained. When we no longer know quite what we spend so much time fighting for, when reality and everyday worries overwhelm us and we wonder how much longer we’re going to be able to carry on. The wonderful thing is that we can all live through far more days like that without breaking than we think. The terrible thing is that we never know exactly how many.”
― Fredrik Backman, Beartown

“Never trust people who don't have something in their lives that they love beyond all reason.”
― Fredrik Backman, Beartown

“Everyone has a thousand wishes before a tragedy, but just one afterward.”
― Fredrik Backman, Beartown

“Religion is something between you and other people; it’s full of interpretations and theories and opinions. But faith . . . that’s just between you and God.”
― Fredrik Backman, Beartown

“Another morning comes. It always does. Time always moves at the same rate, only feelings have different speeds. Every day can mark a whole lifetime or a single heartbeat, depending on who you spend it with. *”
― Fredrik Backman, Beartown

“The love a parent feels for a child is strange. There is a starting point to our love for everyone else, but not this person. This one we have always loved, we loved them before they even existed. No matter how well prepared they are, all moms and dads experience a moment of total shock, when the tidal wave of feelings first washed through them, knocking them off their feet. It's incomprehensible because there's nothing to compare it to. It's like trying to describe sand between your toes or snowflakes on your tongue to someone who's lived their whole life in a dark room. It sends the soul flying.”
― Fredrik Backman, Beartown

“If you are honest, people may deceive you. Be honest anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfishness. Be kind anyway. All the good you do today will be forgotten by others tomorrow. Do good anyway.”
― Fredrik Backman, Beartown

“It doesn’t take a lot to be able to let go of your child. It takes everything.”
― Fredrik Backman, Beartown

“هرگز از مرگ نهراسيده‌ام
اگرچه دستان‌اش از ابتذال شکننده‌تر بود.
هراس ِ من باري همه از مردن در سرزميني‌ست که مزد ِگورکن از بهاي ِ آزاد‌ي ِ آدمي افزون باشد”
― احمد شاملو

“مرا، مي بايد كه در اين خم راه
در انتظاري تاب سوز
سايه گاهي به چوب و سنگ برآرم
چرا كه سرانجام،اميد
ازسفري به ديرانجاميده
بازمي آيد
به زماني اما
اي دريغ
كه مرا
بامي بر سر نيست
نه گليمي به زير پاي
از تاب خورشيد
تفتيدن را
سبويي نيست
تاآبش دهم
وبر آسودن از خستگي را
باليني نه
كه بنشانمش
مسافرچشم به راهيهاي من
بيگاهان از راه بخواهد رسيد
اي همه ي اميدها
مرا به برآوردن اين بام
نيرويي دهيد”
― احمد شاملو / Ahmad Shamloo, از هوا و آینه‌ها