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Mother often described herself as a pleaser: she said she couldn’t stop herself from speculating what people wanted her to be, and from contorting herself, compulsively, unwillingly, into whatever it was.
«مادر اغلب خودش را فردی توصیف میکرد که همیشه به دنبال راضی کردن دیگران است؛ میگفت نمیتواند جلوی خودش را بگیرد و مدام حدس میزند که مردم از او چه میخواهند، و سپس ناخواسته و از روی اجبار، وجودش را به همان شکلی که آنها میپسندند، کجومعوج میکند.»
contort:
معنی این کلمه ورای کج و معوج کردن است. به کسانی که بدنی بسیار منعطف دارند و توانایی انجام حرکاتی را دارند که گویی بدن آنها از خمیر ساخته شده «کونتورشنیست» اطلاق میشود. استفاده از این کلمه برای توصیف کسی که مدام از حق خود میگذرد و مدام به فکر راضی نگه داشتن دیگران است، معنا و تصویر ویژهای به این عبارت میبخشد.
“Any reduction of the world around us can have explosives consequences since it rules out some sources of uncertainty; it drives us to a misunderstanding of the fabric of the world. For instance, you may think that radical Islam (and its values) are your allies against the threat of Communism, and so you may help them develop, until they send two planes into downtown Manhattan.”
― The Black Swan - The Impect Of The Highly Improbable
― The Black Swan - The Impect Of The Highly Improbable
“For men and women are not only themselves; they are also the region in which they are born, the city apartment or farm in which they learnt to walk, the games they played as children, the old wives tales they overheard, the food they ate, the schools they attended, the sports they followed, the poets they read, and the God they believed in. It is all these things that have made them what they are, and these are the things that you can't come to know by hearsay...”
― The Razor’s Edge
― The Razor’s Edge
“Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.”
― Studies in Pessimism: The Essays
― Studies in Pessimism: The Essays
“لحظه ی دیدار نزدیک است
باز من دیوانه ام ، مستم
باز می لرزد ، دلم ، دستم
باز گویی در جهان دیگری هستم
های ! نخراشی به غفلت گونه ام را ، تیغ
های ، نپریشی صفای زلفکم را ، دست
و آبرویم را نریزی ، دل
ای نخورده مست
لحظه ی دیدار نزدیک است”
―
باز من دیوانه ام ، مستم
باز می لرزد ، دلم ، دستم
باز گویی در جهان دیگری هستم
های ! نخراشی به غفلت گونه ام را ، تیغ
های ، نپریشی صفای زلفکم را ، دست
و آبرویم را نریزی ، دل
ای نخورده مست
لحظه ی دیدار نزدیک است”
―
“The assumption that animals are without rights and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.”
― The Basis of Morality
― The Basis of Morality
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