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“بين اليقظة الواعية في طرف ، و الموت البارد في طرف آخر ، هنالك حالات متدرجة من الغيبوبة و النعاس ، و سيأخذك العجب حين أزعم لك أن قلة ضئيلة من الناس هي اليقظانة الواعية ، و أما الكثرة الغالبة منهم ففي غيبوبة و نعاس ، في وجوههم أعين مفتوحة ، لكنها تنظر ولا ترى”
― الكوميديا الأرضية
― الكوميديا الأرضية
“The eternal silence of these infinite spaces terrifies me”
― Pensées
― Pensées
“Yes, in my life, since we must call it so, there were three things, the inability to speak, the inability to be silent, and solitude, that’s what I’ve had to make the best of.”
― The Unnamable
― The Unnamable
“Very early in my life it was too late.”
― The Lover
― The Lover
“The more he identifies with the dominant images of need, the less he understands his own life and his own desires. The spectacle’s estrangement from the acting subject is expressed by the fact that the individual’s gestures are no longer his own; they are the gestures of someone else who represents them to him.”
― The Society of the Spectacle
― The Society of the Spectacle
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Basem’s 2025 Year in Books
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