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'Well,' she drawled, I suppose we decided to be girls because being boys seems to require giving up half your brain cells.'

"They were men at Oxford; they were not Oxford men."

"IfThey're going to tell stories about you, use it to your advantage. The English are never going to think I'm posh, but if I fit into their fantasy, then they'll at least think I'm royalty."

"But that's the beauty of learning a new language. It should feel like an enormous undertaking. It ought to intimidate you. It makes you appreciate the complexity of the ones you know already."

“It’s not logical to be afraid of myself.”

“It’s wabi-sabi,” he says.

“Nice stash,” he says.
“What?”
“Your mustache.” He points underneath his own nose.

"Reading about people is not the same as understanding them."

Ops..
Idk, is it even possible to understand people? I though reading psychology will help but now I need to understand them. Too much effort.

"In art there are no countries."

امبيه امبيه THIS IS INSANE

Is he going to kill anyone he suspects? Life is too easy.

“Rensch argued that being bigger meant having a larger brain, which meant that larger animals must be smarter.”

“As we have just seen, bacteria invented the wheel, and exploited theirs in a most sophisticated manner.”

Purcell says, “Motion at low Reynolds numbers is very slow, majestic and regular.”

“The stems of coconuts are very thick and sturdy, while watermelons have solved the problem by lying on the ground;”

“It is a record tapeworm found in a human being, and the fact it is so long means that our intestine is also long and highly convoluted.”

This being at 10.. while the whale is at 1. Incredible.

“I had a psychologist friend who wanted to apply for a grant to build a huge room with gigantic furniture exactly as a small child would see it, and study the effect it might have on an adult who reenters his childhood world. The university committee that had to pass on research done on human subjects turned the request down: the effect might be too dangerous for the human psyche!”

“It is foolish to answer a question that you do not understand. It is sad to work for an end that you do not desire.”

“see PROBLEMS TO FIND, PROBLEMS TO PROVE.”

"لقد اعتاد أن يسير باحترام وعلى نحو ملائم كغراب. ولكن خطر له في أحد الأيام أن يحاول السير كحمامة. ومنذ ذلك الحين لم يستطع طوال حياته أن يتذكر طريقته في السير اختلط عليه الأمر ، ألا ترى؟ كان فقط يعرج."

"حين نعيش سعادة ما نعاني صعوبة في الوعي بها. ولا ندرك أننا كنا سعداء إلا بعد أن تتبخّر السعادة وتتحوّل إلى ذكرى."

"هم مرتاحون لبؤسهم. فدعهم ولا تقل شيئًا."

احيانًا عدلك هو ظلم لهم، والظلم بنظرك هو وسيلة حياة لهم.

"يستجوب نفسه بالدهشة نفسها حين يشاهد امرأة، شجرة متبرعمة، كأس ماء باردا. يرى زوربا كل شيء يوميًا وكأنه يراه للمرة الأولى."

"وعلى الوجه قناع مبتسم وثابت. أما ما يحدث خلف القناع فذلك همّنا وحدنا."

(إن الطريقة الوحيدة كي تنقذ نفسك نفسك هي أن تناضل لإنقاذ الآخرين.)

انا غبيه الي قريت مقدمة المترجم، ليش خرب القصة يعني ما كان له داعي. ١٨ صفحه غول بزوربا لو كاتبها حق زوجتك ابرك.

"I spent fifty-five years with the love of my life. I lost her last July." He gestured to the boy. "Just when you think this war has taken everything you loved, you meet someone and realize that somehow you still have more to give."

"This was the type of man who looked at a picture on the wall and instead of admiring the photo, looked at his own reflection in the glass."

مينونه هذي

A woman grabbed my arm. "How much for the kid? They won't let me on if I don't have a kid."

The wandering boy's legs tightened on my shoulders.

"He's not for sale," I told her.

"Everyone has a price," she said.

"But clearly not everyone has a soul," said Poet, raising his walking stick to the woman. "Step away from the child."