Walaa Shaaban
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“But isn’t being alone closer to the truest version of ourselves, when we’re not linked to another, not diluted by their presence and judgments? We form relationships with others, friends, family. That’s fine. Those relationships don’t bind the way love does. We can still have lovers, short-term. But only when alone can we focus on ourselves, know ourselves. How can we know ourselves without this solitude?”
― I'm Thinking of Ending Things
― I'm Thinking of Ending Things
“يقول بيل غيتس :"الجامعة هي المكان الذي تقضي فيه السنة في النوم ولعب البريدج، ثم تدرس أسبوعين وتنجح في الإمتحانات.".”
― عظماء بلا مدارس
― عظماء بلا مدارس
“Living in that childish wonder is a most beautiful feeling - I can so well remember it. There was always something more - behind and beyond everything - to me, the golden spectacles were very, very big.”
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“I think what I want is for someone to know me. Really know me. Know me better than anyone else and maybe even me. Isn’t that why we commit to another? It’s not for sex. If it were for sex, we wouldn’t marry one person. We’d just keep finding new partners. We commit for many reasons, I know, but the more I think about it, the more I think long-term relationships are for getting to know someone. I want someone to know me, really know me, almost like that person could get into my head. What would that feel like? To have access, to know what it’s like in someone else’s head. To rely on someone else, have him rely on you. That’s not a biological connection like the one between parents and children. This kind of relationship would be chosen. It would be something cooler, harder to achieve than one built on biology and shared genetics. I think that’s it. Maybe that’s how we know when a relationship is real. When someone else previously unconnected to us knows us in a way we never thought or believed possible.”
― I'm Thinking of Ending Things
― I'm Thinking of Ending Things
“Not all those who wander are lost.”
― The Fellowship of the Ring
― The Fellowship of the Ring
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