“Where is it I've read that someone condemned to death says or thinks, an hour before his death, that if he had to live on some high rock, on such a narrow ledge that he'd only room to stand, and the ocean, everlasting darkness, everlasting solitude, everlasting tempest around him, if he had to remain standing on a square yard of space all his life, a thousand years, eternity, it were better to live so than to die at once. Only to live, to live and live! Life, whatever it may be!”
― Crime and Punishment
― Crime and Punishment
“There is satisfaction in knowing that something good and right and true was part of you. That you had the blessing, gift, good fortune, perfect luck, to know someone like this, to pass through fire and water and stone and sky together and emerge, all of you, strong enough to hold on, strong enough to let go. (Cassia)”
― Reached
― Reached
“The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read.”
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“Whenever we got a glimpse, their faces looked indecently revealed, as though we were used to seeing women in veils.”
― The Virgin Suicides
― The Virgin Suicides
“أننى أعيش فى بلاد, الحقيقه فيها هى ما تجئ به التعليمات لكف الحقيقه عن الوجود فعلا, بحيث يغدو محتملاً أن يكون كل شئ هو الحقيقه باستثناء ما يقال لنا إنه الحقيقه.”
― Midnight’s Children
― Midnight’s Children
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