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NosNos ’s Quotes

“دع المساجد للــعباد تسكنها***وطف بنا حول خمار ليسقينا
ما قال ربك ويل للذين سكروا***ولكن قال ويل للمـصلينا”
― أبو نواس

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“The important task of literature is to free man, not to censor him, and that is why Puritanism was the most destructive and evil force which ever oppressed people and their literature: it created hypocrisy, perversion, fears, sterility.”
― Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 4: 1944-1947

tags: banned-books, censorship, evil, fear, freedom, hypocrisy, intellectual-freedom, literature, perversion, puritanism, sterility

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“An honest bookstore would post the following sign above its 'self-help' section: 'For true self-help, please visit our philosophy, literature, history and science sections, find yourself a good book, read it, and think about it.”
― Roger Ebert, I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie

tags: books, bookstores, history, literature, philosophy, reading, science, self-help, thinking

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“This day will never come again and anyone who fails to eat and drink and taste and smell it will never have it offered to him again in all eternity. The sun will never shine as it does today...But you must play your part and sing a song, one of your best. ”
― Hermann Hesse, Klingsors letzter Sommer

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“When you run up against someone else’s shamelessness, ask yourself this: Is a world without shamelessness possible?

No. Then don’t ask the impossible. There have to be shameless people in the world. This is one of them. The same for someone vicious or untrustworthy, or with any other defect. Remembering that the whole world class has to exist will make you more tolerant of its members.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

tags: detachment, self-improvement, stoicism

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