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This Is Happiness

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القرآن الكريم

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I can no longer fathom what is permissible and what is not, and I end up trespassing even more borders, worse ones than before. Yet all my fear and anxiety and internal turmoil dissipates when this trespassing occurs within the confines of ...more

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Mehmed’s Quotes

“What if he were an ordinary man who has been rightfully allotted no more than a mediocre destiny?”
― Dino Buzzati, Il deserto dei Tartari

tags: acceptance, mediocrity

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“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

tags: inspirational, music, philosophy

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“Very few things matter and nothing matters very much.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

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“The madman is a dreamer awake”
― S. Freud

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“The more I love humanity in general the less I love man in particular. In my dreams, I often make plans for the service of humanity, and perhaps I might actually face crucifixion if it were suddenly necessary. Yet I am incapable of living in the same room with anyone for two days together. I know from experience. As soon as anyone is near me, his personality disturbs me and restricts my freedom. In twenty-four hours I begin to hate the best of men: one because he’s too long over his dinner, another because he has a cold and keeps on blowing his nose. I become hostile to people the moment they come close to me. But it has always happened that the more I hate men individually the more I love humanity.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

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