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“Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.”
― Franz Kafka

“Anger is stupid, and stupidity will kill you more surely than your opponent's blade.”
― Patricia Briggs, Dragon Bones

“I was twenty then. What the hell, I used to say, take your time, Bandini. You got ten years to write a book, so take it easy, get out and learn about life, walk the streets. That’s your trouble: your ignorance of life.”
― John Fante, Ask the Dust

“Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune. ”
― Carl Gustav Jung

“أشد سجون الحياة فكرة خائبة يسجن الحي فيها، لا هو مستطيع أن يدعها، ولا هو قادر أن يحققها؛ فهذا يمتد شقاؤه ما يمتد ولا يزال كأنه على أوله لا يتقدم إلى نهاية؛ ويتألم ما يتألم ولا تزال تشعره الحياة أن كل ما فات من العذاب إنما هو بَدْء العذاب.”
― مصطفى صادق الرافعي, وحي القلم

“أضيعُ الأمم أمة يختلف أبناؤها. فكيف بمن يختلفون حتى في كيف يختلفون...؟”
― مصطفى صادق الرافعي, كلمة وكليمة

“Anyone can achieve their fullest potential, who we are might be predetermined, but the path we follow is always of our own choosing. We should never allow our fears or the expectations of others to set the frontiers of our destiny. Your destiny can't be changed but, it can be challenged. Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.”
― Martin Heidegger

“If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself. ”
― Martin Heidegger

“Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man. ”
― Martin Heidegger

“Time is not a thing, thus nothing which is, and yet it remains constant in its passing away without being something temporal like the beings in time.”
― Martin Heidegger

“Whoever you are, now I place my hand upon you/ That you may be my poem/ I whisper with my lips close to your ear/ I have loved many women and men, but I love none better than you.”
― Walt Whitman