“But I'm not here just to make records and money. I'm here to say something and to touch other people, sometimes in a cry of desperation: "Do you know this feeling?”
― Life
― Life
“One is happy once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness: simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self denial to a point, love of work, and above all, a clear conscience.”
― Correspondance, 1812-1876; Volume 5
― Correspondance, 1812-1876; Volume 5
“الناس لا يتحمّلون مآسيهم بالشجاعة نفسها”
― أعراس آمنة
― أعراس آمنة
“Tonight’s December thirty-first,
Something is about to burst.
The clock is crouching, dark and small,
Like a time bomb in the hall.
Hark, it's midnight, children dear.
Duck! Here comes another year!”
― Collected Verse from 1929 On
Something is about to burst.
The clock is crouching, dark and small,
Like a time bomb in the hall.
Hark, it's midnight, children dear.
Duck! Here comes another year!”
― Collected Verse from 1929 On
“وتذكر أن من تعرفه الخيل لن يجهله الناس”
― زمن الخيول البيضاء
― زمن الخيول البيضاء
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