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“يا قدس يا سيدتي معذرة فليس لي يدان
وليس لي أسلحة وليس لي ميدان
كل الذي أملكه لسان
والنطق يا سيدتي أسعاره باهظة ، والموت بالمجان
سيدتي أحرجتني، فالعمر سعر كلمة واحدة وليس لي عمران
أقول نصف كلمة ، ولعنة الله على وسوسة الشيطان ،
جاءت إليك لجنة، تبيض لجنتين
تفقسان بعد جولتين عن ثمان
وبالرفاء و ا لبنين تكثر اللجان
ويسحق الصبر على أعصابه
ويرتدي قميصه عثمان
سيدتي ، حي على اللجان
حي على اللجان !”
―
وليس لي أسلحة وليس لي ميدان
كل الذي أملكه لسان
والنطق يا سيدتي أسعاره باهظة ، والموت بالمجان
سيدتي أحرجتني، فالعمر سعر كلمة واحدة وليس لي عمران
أقول نصف كلمة ، ولعنة الله على وسوسة الشيطان ،
جاءت إليك لجنة، تبيض لجنتين
تفقسان بعد جولتين عن ثمان
وبالرفاء و ا لبنين تكثر اللجان
ويسحق الصبر على أعصابه
ويرتدي قميصه عثمان
سيدتي ، حي على اللجان
حي على اللجان !”
―
“A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.”
― Essays and Aphorisms
― Essays and Aphorisms
“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for? So that it will make us happy, as you write? Good Lord, we would be happy precisely if we had no books, and the kind of books that make us happy are the kind we could write ourselves if we had to. But we need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. That is my belief.”
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“By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.”
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“Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.”
― Parerga and Paralipomena
― Parerga and Paralipomena
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