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“And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“The heaviest of burdens crushes us, we sink beneath it, it pins us to the ground. But in love poetry of every age, the woman longs to be weighed down by the man's body.The heaviest of burdens is therefore simultaneously an image of life's most intense fulfillment. The heavier the burden, the closer our lives come to the earth, the more real and truthful they become. Conversely, the absolute absence of burden causes man to be lighter than air, to soar into heights, take leave of the earth and his earthly being, and become only half real, his movements as free as they are insignificant. What then shall we choose? Weight or lightness?”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“for there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“Does he love me? Does he love anyone more than me? Does he love me more than I love him? Perhaps all the questions we ask of love, to measure, test, probe, and save it, have the additional effect of cutting it short. Perhaps the reason we are unable to love is that we yearn to be loved, that is, we demand something (love) from our partner instead of delivering ourselves up to him demand-free and asking for nothing but his company.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“For Sabina, living in truth, lying neither to ourselves nor to others, was possible only away from the public: the moment someone keeps an eye on what we do, we involuntarily make allowances for that eye, and nothing we do is truthful. Having a public, keeping a public in mind, means living in lies.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.”
― Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“Each man is master of his own death, and all that we can do when the time comes is to help him die without fear of pain.”
― Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past. But when he stood at the railing of the ship... only then did he understand to what extent he had been an easy vicitim to the charitible deceptions of nostalgia. ”
― Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me. The last of one’s freedoms is to choose one’s attitude in any given circumstance.”
― Viktor E. Frankl

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“Books, which we mistake for consolation, only add depth to our sorrow. ”
― Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red

“Painting is the silence of thought and the music of sight.”
― Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red

“The beauty and mystery of this world only emerges through affection, attention, interest and compassion . . . open your eyes wide and actually see this world by attending to its colors, details and irony.”
― Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red

“If you love a flower, don’t pick it up.
Because if you pick it up it dies and it ceases to be what you love.
So if you love a flower, let it be.
Love is not about possession.
Love is about appreciation.”
― Osho

“وای جنگل را بیابان میکنند ...


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گشت آلوده به خون حضرت هابیل

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زهر تلخ دشمنی در خون شان جوشید

آدمیت مرد

گرچه آدم زنده بود

از همان روزی که یوسف را برادرها به چاه انداختند

از همان روزی که با شلاق و خون دیوار چین را ساختند

آدمیت مرده بود

بعد دنیا هی پر از آدم شد و این آسیاب

گشت و گشت

قرنها از مرگ آدم هم گذشت

ای دریغ

آدمیت برنگشت

قرن ما

روزگار مرگ انسانیت است

سینه دنیا ز خوبی ها تهی است

صحبت از آزادگی پاکی مروت ابلهی است

صحبت از موسی و عیسی و محمد نابجاست

قرن موسی چمبه هاست

روزگار مرگ انسانیت است

من که از پژمردن یک شاخه گل

از نگاه ساکت یک کودک بیمار

از فغان یک قناری در قفس

از غم یک مرد در زنجیر حتی قاتلی بر دار

اشک در چشمان و بغضم در گلوست

وندرین ایام زهرم در پیاله زهر مارم در سبوست

مرگ او را از کجا باور کنم

صحبت از پژمردن یک برگ نیست

وای جنگل را بیابان میکنند

دست خون آلود را در پیش چشم خلق پنهان میکنند

هیچ حیوانی به حیوانی نمی دارد روا

آنچه این نامردان با جان انسان میکنند

صحبت از پژمردن یک برگ نیست

فرض کن مرگ قناری در قفس هم مرگ نیست

فرض کن یک شاخه گل هم در جهان هرگز نرست

فرض کن جنگل بیابان بود از روز نخست

در کویری سوت و کور

در میان مردمی با این مصیبت ها صبور

صحبت از مرگ محبت مرگ عشق

گفتگو از مرگ انسانیت است”
― فریدون مشیری