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#1

“یک زمان
در یک مکان
با مرگ میعاد خواهم داشت
کاش
آن زمان و آن مکان
اینجا و اکنون بود.”
― نصرت رحمانی Nosrat Rahmani

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#2

“Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

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#3

“Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

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#4

“I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

tags: affection, amity, love

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#5

“I want to know you moved and breathed in the same world with me.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald

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#6

“Do you ever wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it? I always wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it!”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

tags: daisy, year

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#7

“God knows I had not wanted to fall in love with her. I had not wanted to fall in love with any one. But God knows I had and I lay on the bed in the room of the hospital in Milan and all sorts of things went through my head but I felt wonderful...”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

tags: humor

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#8

“...Desire, a function central to all human experience, is the desire for nothing nameable. And at the same time this desire lies at the origin of every variety of animation. If being were only what it is, there wouldn’t even be room to talk about it. Being comes into existence as an exact function of this lack.”
― Jacques Lacan

tags: being, desire, existence, lacan, lack

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#9

“The madman is a dreamer awake”
― S. Freud

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#10

“Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.”
― Max Frisch

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#11

“You can put anything into words, except your own life”
― Max Frisch

tags: irony, meaning

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#12

“باید خودم را ببرم خانه
باید ببرم صورتش را بشویم
ببرم دراز بکشد
دل‌داری‌اش بدهم، که فکر نکند
بگویم که می‌گذرد، که غصه نخورد
باید خودم را ببرم بخوابد
«من» خسته است”
― علیرضا روشن

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#13

“Démons et merveilles
Vents et marées
Au loin déjà la mer s'est retirée”
― Jacques Prévert

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#14

“The pleasure isn't in owning the person. The pleasure is this. Having another contender in the room with you.”
― Philip Roth, The Human Stain

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#15

“I have always thirsted for knowledge, I have always been full of questions.”
― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

tags: hesse, knowledge, question, siddhartha

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#16

“The poet…is the man of metaphor: while the philosopher is interested only in the truth of meaning, beyond even signs and names, and the sophist manipulates empty signs…the poet plays on the multiplicity of signifieds.”
― Jacques Derrida

tags: derrida, philosophy, poetry

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#17

“We are given over to absolute solitude. No one can speak with us and no one can speak for us; we must take it upon ourselves, each of us must take it upon himself.”
― Jacques Derrida, The Gift of Death

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#18

“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
― Stephen King

tags: reading, writing

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#19

“I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.”
― Franz Kafka

tags: writing

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#20

“Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly – they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

tags: reading, words, writing

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#21

“Writing in English is like throwing mud at a wall.”
― Joseph Conrad

tags: english, language, writing

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#22

“The goddam movies. They can ruin you. I'm not kidding”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

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#23

“I'm a dog, and because you humans are much less rational beasts than I, you're telling yourselves, 'Dogs don't talk.' Nethertheless, you seem to believe a story in which corpses speak and characters use words they couldn't possibly know. Dogs do speak, but only to those who know how to listen.”
― Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red

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#24

“Real museums are places where Time is transformed into Space.”
― Orhan Pamuk, The Museum of Innocence

tags: collecting, love, museum, nostalgia, space, time

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#25