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#1

“Poor as the poor I cling,
like them, to humiliating hopes;
like them, each day I nearly kill myself
just to live.”
― Pier Paolo Pasolini, Poems

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#2

“Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts.”
― Serge Gainsbourg

tags: insightful

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#3

“يُحتمل أنني، رغم كل الظواهر، مجرّد رُقعة بشرية تتنقلُ فى جُغرافية الألوهة العاقر. أو بيدق رباني تُحركهُ يدُ مجهولة على رقعة الشطرنج.”
― سركون بولص, عظمة أخرى لكلب القبيلة

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#4

“أحب الحياة بشراهةٍ ويأس مفرطين الى حدّ يستحيل معه أن أجني منها أي خير: أقصد معطيات الحياة المادية، كالشمس ، كالعشب ، كالشباب... إنني ألتهم وألتهم وألتهم... إلامَ سـيؤول بي ذلك ، لا أعرف”
― Pier Paolo Pasolini

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#5

“وإن لم تستطع تشكيل حياتك كما تريد
فحاول -على الأقل- بقدر ما تستطيع
ألا تبتذلها
بالاحتكاك الزائد بالعالم
بالحركة والكلام الزائد
حاول ألا تبتذلها بجرجرتها هنا وهناك
بالطواف بها وتعريضها -كثيرًا- للسخافة اليومية
للأحداث والحفلات الاجتماعية
إلى أن تُصبح مثل عبٍ مُضجر”
― C.P. Cavafy

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#6

“إلى ذاتى: فى هذا العالم المجرم، الذى يكتفى بأن يشترى ويزدرى، أنا هو الأكثر إجراماً، أنا المُيبّس بالمرارة.”
― Pier Paolo Pasolini, زريبة الخنازير

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#7

“Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.”
― franz kafka

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#8

“I don't believe we shall ever again have any form of society in which men will be free. One should not hope for it. One should not hope for anything. Hope is invented by politicians to keep the electorate happy.”
― Pier Paolo Pasolini, Philippe Séclier

tags: gay, hope, italy, pasolini

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#9

“Nothing remains but to hope the end will come to extinguish the unrelenting pain of waiting for it.”
― Pier Paolo Pasolini, Poems

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#10

“The revolution is now just a sentiment.”
― Pier Paolo Pasolini, Poems

tags: revolution

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#11

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: good, writing

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#12

“I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: sleep

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#13

“All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: truth, writing, writing-advice

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#14

“It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

tags: goals, journey, travel

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#15

“شاء الله للعالم السفلي أن يتجلى:
أزقة مظلمة، حزينة
كتب على البشر أن يتيهوا فيها
إلى الأبد.”
― سركون بولص

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#16

“Courage is grace under pressure.”
― ernest hemingway

tags: courage

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#17

“Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: death, life

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#18

“I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

tags: the-sun-also-rises

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#19

“I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars.”
― Ernest Hemingway

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#20

“Give me just one generation of youth, and I'll transform the whole world.”
― Vladimir Lenin

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#21

“When a liberal is abused, he says, ‘Thank God they didn’t beat me.’ When he is beaten, he thanks God they didn’t kill him. When he is killed, he will thank God that his immortal soul has been delivered from its mortal clay.”
― Vladimir Lenin

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#22

“أن الثوره حرب, وهذه الحرب هي الحرب المشروعه الوحيده في العالم”
― Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

tags: lenin

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#23

“There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.”
― Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

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#24

“Everything under heaven is in utter chaos; the situation is excellent.”
― mao tse-tung

tags: revolution

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#25

“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

tags: honesty, truth-telling, writing

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#26

“The meaning of life is that it stops.”
― Franz Kafka

tags: death, life

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#27

“You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.”
― Franz Kafka

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#28

“I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.”
― Franz Kafka

tags: darkness

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#29

“As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.”
― Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis

tags: cockroaches, first-sentence, insects, transformation

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#30

“I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.”
― Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

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