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“I don't even want you to nod, that's how much you annoy me. Just freeze and shut up.”
― Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash

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“One of the great conditions of anger and hatred is, that you must tell and believe lies against the hated object, in order, as we said, to be consistent.”
― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

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“I know exactly the potential of the people around here. They have the potential to lie. They have the potential to deceive. They have the potential to inveigle. They’ll change nothing. Sometimes, when I can’t sleep, I lie awake thinking, my God! We have so much. We have these huge forests. We have boundless open fields. We can see the deepest, furthest horizons. Look around you. Look. We should be giants. We really, really aren’t.”
― Anton Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard

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“And, I think: I am but one more drop in the great sea of matter, defined, with the ability to realize my existence. Of the millions, I, too, was potentially everything at birth. I, too, was stunted, narrowed, warped, by my environment, my outcroppings of heredity. I, too, will find a set of beliefs, of standards to live by, yet the very satisfaction of finding them will be marred by the fact that I have reached the ultimate in shallow, two-dimensional living — a set of values.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

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“لا يتم إنتاج الحقيقة بطريقة واحدة، بل إن هناك طرق كثيرة تختلف باختلاف المجالات المعرفية وأنظمة الفكر والأدوات المنهجية والذوات العارفة، ولا يمكن لنا إلا أن نخالف ابن رشد ها هنا في زعمه أن الطريق البرهاني هو الطريق الأصح، والمقصود به هو طريق الفلاسفة، فالحقيقة التي تنتج في الشعر وفي النبوءة ليست أقل قيمة أو مرتبة من الحقيقة الفلسفية، والأداة الفلسفية ليست أكثر كشفا وإضاءة من الأداة الشعرية، أو من الآلة التي يمثلها الخيال، فالخيال هو ملكة معرفية تمكننا من استكشاف وجودنا على قدم المساواة مع العقل، فضلا عن كونه مرتبة وجودية، تماما كالعقل ذاته، هذا مع أن الفصل بين العقل والخيال لا يخلو من تحكم وتعسف.”
― علي حرب

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