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Jude the Obscure

by Thomas Hardy

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Feb 20, 2025 04:07AM

“لم يعد الإنسان يرغب في المشي في الدروب والتمتّع بذلك. كما أنه لم يعد يرى حياته كدرب، بل كطريق: كخطّ يقود من نقطة إلى أخرى، من رتبة رقيب إلى رتبة لواء، من وضع زوجة إلى وضع أرملة. واختُزِل زمن الحياة في مجرّد عقبة ينبغي تذليلها بسرعة متزايدة.”
― ميلان كونديرا, Immortality

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“كثيراً ما يستعين الإنسان بالقسوة لحمل بني جنسه على الشعور بالعجز، لأن عجزهم يعزز لديه الإحساس بالقوة والتفوق.”
― توني ماغواير, Don’t Tell Mummy: A True Story of the Ultimate Betrayal

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“Throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

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“Elizabeth: "What could set you off in the first place?”
Mr Darcy: “I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look, or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

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“As you got older, and felt yourself to be at the centre of your time, and not at a point on the circumference, as you had felt when you were little, you were seized with a sort of shuddering, he perceived. All around you there seemed to be something glaring, garish, rattling, and the noises and glares hit upon the little cell called your life, and shook it, and warped it.”
― Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure

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