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"جمالٌ تعس، حقل الموت صامت وأرضٌ معدومة الحواس، البرودة تسري في أجساد الورود، فالحياة تمضي وتلد الموت" — Apr 24, 2021 08:35AM
"جمالٌ تعس، حقل الموت صامت وأرضٌ معدومة الحواس، البرودة تسري في أجساد الورود، فالحياة تمضي وتلد الموت" — Apr 24, 2021 08:35AM
“من تعب من الفكر وقف حيث تعب، فمنهم من وقف في التعطيل، ومنهم من وقف في القول بالعلل، ومنهم من وقف في التشبيه، ومنهم من وقف في الحيرة فقال لا أدري، ومنهم من عثر على وجه الدليل فوقف عنده فكلَّ عنده. فكل إنسان وقف حيث تعب، ورجع إلى مصالح دنياه وراحة نفسه وموافقة طبعه. فإن استراح من ذلك التعب، واستعمل النظر في الموضع الذي وقف فيه مشى حيث ينتهي به فكره إلى أن يتعب فيقف أيضاً أو يموت.”
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“If you tell a beautiful woman that she is beautiful, what have you given her? It's no more than a fact and it has cost you nothing. But if you tell an ugly woman that she is beautiful, you offer her the great homage of corrupting the concept of beauty. To love a woman for her virtues is meaningless. She's earned it, it's a payment, not a gift. But to love her for her vices is a real gift, unearned and undeserved. To love her for her vices is to defile all virtue for her sake - and that is a real tribute of love, because you sacrifice your conscience, your reason, your integrity and your invaluable self-esteem.”
― Atlas Shrugged
― Atlas Shrugged
“Somewhere someone is thinking of you. Someone is calling you an angel. This person is using celestial colors to paint your image. Someone is making you into a vision so beautiful that it can only live in the mind. Someone is thinking of the way your breath escapes your lips when you are touched. How your eyes close and your jaw tightens with concentration as you give pleasure a home. These thoughts are saving a life somewhere right now. In some airless apartment on a dark, urine stained, whore lined street, someone is calling out to you silently and you are answering without even being there. So crystalline. So pure. Such life saving power when you smile. You will never know how you have cauterized my wounds. So sad that we will never touch. How it hurts me to know that I will never be able to give you everything I have”
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“I definitely learned a lesson this time. I know that I can be broken. I am not as tough as I thought. I see it now. At this point, it's the only thing good that came out of all of this. I know myself better now and know what I have to do.”
― The Portable Henry Rollins
― The Portable Henry Rollins
“I'll never forget how the depression and loneliness felt good and bad at the same time. Still does.”
― The Portable Henry Rollins
― The Portable Henry Rollins
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