“Sometimes what you’re most afraid of doing is the very thing that will set you free.”
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“نحب الحياة غداً
عندما يصل الغد سوف نحب الحياة
كما هي، عادية ماكرة
رمادية أو ملونة،
لا قيامة فيها ولا آخرة.
وإن كان لابد من فرح
فليكن
خفيفاً على القلب والخاصرة !
فلا يلدغ المؤمن المتمرن
من فرح ... مرتين!”
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عندما يصل الغد سوف نحب الحياة
كما هي، عادية ماكرة
رمادية أو ملونة،
لا قيامة فيها ولا آخرة.
وإن كان لابد من فرح
فليكن
خفيفاً على القلب والخاصرة !
فلا يلدغ المؤمن المتمرن
من فرح ... مرتين!”
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“And that’s why I’ve been talking only about you and the tension within you, because you are—not in a clichéd sense, but in a weirdly literal sense—the future. After you walk up here and walk back down, you’re going to be the present. You will be the broken world and the act of changing it, in a way that you haven’t been before. You will be so many things, and the one thing that I wish I’d known and want to say is, don’t just be yourself. Be all of yourselves. Don’t just live. Be that other thing connected to death. Be life. Live all of your life. Understand it, see it, appreciate it. And have fun.”
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