“For some reason, you will no longer be the person you believed you once were. You'll detect slow and subtle shifts going on all around you, more importantly shifts in you. Worse, you'll realize it's always been shifting, like a shimmer of sorts, a vast shimmer, only dark like a room. But you won't understand why or how.”
― House of Leaves
― House of Leaves
“هل على من لا يعرف طبيعة العالِم أن يتهمه بالجنون ..لكن هؤلاء المخابيل هم من يصنعون العلم ..من يموت للبرهنة على فكرة ما ،وبعدها تتلخص حياتهم فى سطر من كتاب ، تقرأه أنت على الأريكة تعبث فى أصابع قدميك ، وتقول :يا لهم من رجال عظام حقاً”
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“We all create stories to protect ourselves.”
― House of Leaves
― House of Leaves
“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
“He gazed up at the enormous face. Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath the dark moustache. O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.”
― 1984
― 1984
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