Faris Alsaleh
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“If I should die,” said I to myself, “I have left no immortal work behind me—nothing to make my friends proud of my memory—but I have lov’d the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remember’d.”
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“If I should die,” said I to myself, “I have left no immortal work behind me—nothing to make my friends proud of my memory—but I have lov’d the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remember’d.”
― The Fall of Hyperion
― The Fall of Hyperion
“ما أكثر ما عزوت لنفسي جرائم لم أقترفها قط ، كي لا أحرج الغير فى مجلسي”
― رمل وزبد
― رمل وزبد
“In the end, it doesn’t matter a damn bit. We thought we were special, opening our perceptions, honing our empathy, spilling that cauldron of shared pain onto the dance floor of language and then trying to make a minuet out of all that chaotic hurt. It doesn’t matter a damn bit. We’re no avatars, no sons of god or man. We’re only us, scribbling our conceits alone, reading alone, and dying alone.”
― The Fall of Hyperion
― The Fall of Hyperion
“—It is hard to die. Harder to live.”
― The Fall of Hyperion
― The Fall of Hyperion
“For good people, religion means peace with everybody, for bad guys a tribe to protect”
― The Great Pearl of Wisdom
― The Great Pearl of Wisdom
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