“Oh great star! What would your happiness be if you did not have us to shine for?”
― Thus Spoke Zarathustra
― Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out.”
― Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality
― Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality
“I suddenly felt that it was all the same to me whether the world existed or whether there had never been anything at all: I began to feel with all my being that there was nothing existing. At first I fancied that many things had existed in the past, but afterwards I guessed that there never had been anything in the past either, but that it had only seemed so for some reason. Little by little I guessed that there would be nothing in the future either. Then I left off being angry with people and almost ceased to notice them. Indeed this showed itself even in the pettiest trifles: I used, for instance, to knock against people in the street. And not so much from being lost in thought: what had I to think about? I had almost given up thinking by that time; nothing mattered to me. If at least I had solved my problems! Oh, I had not settled one of them, and how many there were! But I gave up caring about anything, and all the problems disappeared.”
― The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
― The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
“أيها الناس من أعياه داؤه فعندي دواؤه ومن استطال أجله فعلي أن أعجله ومن ثقل عليه رأسه وضعت عنه ثقله ومن استطال ماضي عمره قصرت عليه باقيه ...إني أنذر ثم لا أنظر وأحذر ثم لا أعذر وأتوعد ثم لا أعفو”
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“لقد تعلموا الكذب وأحبوه وعرفوا مواطن الجمال فيه، ربما بدأ الأمر بريئاً على سبيل المزاح أو الغنج والدعابة واللعب. وحقيقة الأمر أن البداية كانت ذرة، وأن ذرة الكذب تلك تسربت إلى قلوبهم وأعجبتهم !”
― The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
― The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
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