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“With me, the present is forever and forever is always shifting, flowing, melting. This second is life. And when it is gone it is dead. But you can’t start over with each new second. You have to judge by what is dead. It’s like quicksand…hopeless from the start. A story, a picture, can renew sensation a little, but not enough, not enough. Nothing is real except the present, and already, I feel the weight of centuries smothering me. Some girl a hundred years ago lived as I do. And she is dead. I am the present, but I know I, too, will pass. The high moment, the burning flash, come and are gone, continuous quicksand. And I don’t want to die.”
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“I desire the things which will destroy me in the end.”
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“الحياة الإنسانية لا تحدث إلا مرة واحدة، ولن يكون في وسعنا أبدا أن نتحقق أي قرار هو الجيد وأي قرار هو السيئ، لأننا في كل الحالات لا يُمكننا إلا أن نقرر مرة واحدة. لأنه لم تعط لنا حياة ثانية أو ثالثة أو رابعة حتى نستطيع أن نقارن بين قرارات مختلفة.”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“أدركتُ حلاوة السكوت ولم يدرك المتكلمون مرارة الكلام, لذا سكتّ و الناس يتكلمون”
― مذكرات الأرقش
― مذكرات الأرقش
“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
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