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“But I cannot express the discomfort I felt at this
intrusion of mystery and beauty into a room which I had succeeded in filling with my own personality until I thought no more of it than of myself. The anaesthetic effect of habit being destroyed, I would begin to think—and to feel—such melancholy things.”
― In Search of Lost Time, Vol. 1: Swann's Way & Within a Budding Grove, Part 1
intrusion of mystery and beauty into a room which I had succeeded in filling with my own personality until I thought no more of it than of myself. The anaesthetic effect of habit being destroyed, I would begin to think—and to feel—such melancholy things.”
― In Search of Lost Time, Vol. 1: Swann's Way & Within a Budding Grove, Part 1
“إن ما ندعوه بـ"البورجوازي"، بوصفه عنصراً موجوداً دائماً في
الحياة الإنسانية ما هو إلا البحث عن توازن ما، إنه اللهاث خلف وسطية
بين أعداد لا تحصى من التصرفات المتطرفة والمتناقضة التي تبرز في
السلوك الإنساني.”
― Steppenwolf
الحياة الإنسانية ما هو إلا البحث عن توازن ما، إنه اللهاث خلف وسطية
بين أعداد لا تحصى من التصرفات المتطرفة والمتناقضة التي تبرز في
السلوك الإنساني.”
― Steppenwolf
“But maybe a man was nothing but a man, which is what Baby Suggs always said. They encouraged you to put some of your weight in their hands and soon as you felt how light and lovely that was, they studied your scars and tribulations, after which they did what he had done: ran her children out and tore up the house.
[...]
A man ain't nothing but a man,' said Baby Suggs. 'But a son? Well now, that's somebody.”
― Beloved
[...]
A man ain't nothing but a man,' said Baby Suggs. 'But a son? Well now, that's somebody.”
― Beloved
“But then, even in the most insignificant details of our daily life, none of us can be said to constitute a material whole, which is identical for everyone, and need only be turned up like a page in an account-book or the record of a will; our social personality is a creation of the thoughts of other people. Even the simple act which we describe as “seeing someone we know” is to some extent an intellectual process.”
― In Search of Lost Time, Vol. 1: Swann's Way & Within a Budding Grove, Part 1
― In Search of Lost Time, Vol. 1: Swann's Way & Within a Budding Grove, Part 1
“أتساءل: كم نيزكا يستلزم الأمر حتى تتكون لدينا ذاكرة جديدة؟ كم قتيلا ينبغي أن يسقط، وكم حربًا يتوجب أن تأكل أبناءنا حتى تروي العجائز تاريخًا مغايرًا لما يروينه اليوم؟ متى يكون لدينا تاريخ يقفز فوق سير السيل والشهب والحرب والغرق، وحكايات تؤسس لذاكرة تُسقط من صفحاتها صورة الشيخ الولي، وخليل الخوجة، وتمثال زعيمه الجائل بين العقول المذعورة؟ متى يصبح لدينا جريدة تعج بصورٍ ملوّنة للأطفال في الغيطان، والصبايا في الأعراس، جريدة تنقل لنا صور فلسطين المحررة، وتغيب عنها صور الحرب والدبّابات، ومفردات القتال المقدس؟”
― صلاة القلق
― صلاة القلق
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