“I didn't go to bookshops to buy. That's a little bourgeois. I went because they were civilized places. It made me happy there were people who sat down and wrote and wrote and wrote and there were other people who devoted their lives to making those words into books. It was lovely. Like standing in the middle of civilization.”
― Em and The Big Hoom
― Em and The Big Hoom
“It is psychotic to draw a line between two places.
It is psychotic to go.
It is psychotic to look.
Psychotic to live in a different country forever.
Psychotic to lose something forever.
The compelling conviction that something has been lost is psychotic.
Even the aeroplane's dotted line on the monitor as it descends to Heathrow is purely weird ambient energy.
It is psychotic to submit to violence in a time of great violence and yet it is psychotic to leave that home or country, the place where you submitted again and again, forever.
Indeed, it makes the subsequent involuntary arrival a stressor for psychosis.”
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It is psychotic to go.
It is psychotic to look.
Psychotic to live in a different country forever.
Psychotic to lose something forever.
The compelling conviction that something has been lost is psychotic.
Even the aeroplane's dotted line on the monitor as it descends to Heathrow is purely weird ambient energy.
It is psychotic to submit to violence in a time of great violence and yet it is psychotic to leave that home or country, the place where you submitted again and again, forever.
Indeed, it makes the subsequent involuntary arrival a stressor for psychosis.”
―
“ما فائدة أن يكون الخليفة صالحاً في شخصه إذا كان ضعيفاً لا عصبية كافية له تمكنه من الغلبة على الناس وفرض أمره بالقوة.”
― منطق ابن خلدون
― منطق ابن خلدون
“Yes, Latinos dream more. When you live in poverty, when your president is imposed upon you, when they kill someone and no one gets indicted, and when only a few get rich, of course you dream more. It's no coincidence that magic realism happens in Latin America, because for us dreams and aspirations are part of life.”
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―
“إن العلم بوجه عام ليس سوى ظاهرة اجتماعية، وهو لا ينمو بمجهود فرد واحد، بل هو ينمو كما تنمو أية ظاهرة اجتماعية أخرى. وإذا أتيح لفرد عبقري أن يسبق زمانه بإنشاء علم جديد، قبل أن تكون في المجتمع حاجة بذلك العلم، فلا بد أن يكون مصيره الإهمال والنسيان.”
― منطق ابن خلدون
― منطق ابن خلدون
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