“It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge. ”
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“They say that Caliph Omar, when consulted about what had to be done with the library of Alexandria, answered as follows: 'If the books of this library contain matters opposed to the Koran, they are bad and must be burned. If they contain only the doctrine of the Koran, burn them anyway, for they are superfluous.' Our learned men have cited this reasoning as the height of absurdity. However, suppose Gregory the Great was there instead of Omar and the Gospel instead of the Koran. The library would still have been burned, and that might well have been the finest moment in the life of this illustrious pontiff.”
― Discourse on the Sciences and Arts and Polemics
― Discourse on the Sciences and Arts and Polemics
“الوقت الإنساني لا يسير في شكل دائري بل يتقدم في خط مستقيم. من هنا، لا يمكن للإنسان أن يكون سعيداً لأن السعادة رغبة في التكرار.”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“لا رسالة لي ، ولا أحد يملك رسالة . إنها لتعزية لا تقدر بأن نشعر بأننا أحرار وأن لا رسالة لدينا”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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