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“What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears.”
― Alice Walker

“والآن أشهد أن حضورك موت
وأن غيابك موتان”
― محمود درويش

“Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

“The so-called ‘psychotically depressed’ person who tries to kill herself doesn’t do so out of quote ‘hopelessness’ or any abstract conviction that life’s assets and debits do not square. And surely not because death seems suddenly appealing. The person in whom Its invisible agony reaches a certain unendurable level will kill herself the same way a trapped person will eventually jump from the window of a burning high-rise. Make no mistake about people who leap from burning windows. Their terror of falling from a great height is still just as great as it would be for you or me standing speculatively at the same window just checking out the view; i.e. the fear of falling remains a constant. The variable here is the other terror, the fire’s flames: when the flames get close enough, falling to death becomes the slightly less terrible of two terrors. It’s not desiring the fall; it’s terror of the flames. And yet nobody down on the sidewalk, looking up and yelling ‘Don’t!’ and ‘Hang on!’, can understand the jump. Not really. You’d have to have personally been trapped and felt flames to really understand a terror way beyond falling.”
― David Foster Wallace

“Did I do anything wrong today," he said, "or has the world always been like this and I've been too wrapped up in myself to notice?”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

“Ignorance killed the cat; curiosity was framed!”
― C. J. Cherryh

“دائما أنتِ في المنتصف!
أنتِ بيني وبين كتابي ..
بيني وبين فراشي ..
وبيني وبين هدوئي ..
وبيني وبين الكلام!
ذكرياتك سجني وصوتك يجلدني
وأنا بين الشوارع وحدي
وبين المصابيح وحدي!
أتصبب بالحزن بين قميصي وجلدي!
ودمي: قطرة -بين عينيكِ- ليست تجف!
فامنحيني السلام!
امنحيني السلام!”
― أمل دنقل

“If you assume that there is no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, that there are opportunities to change things, then there is a possibility that you can contribute to making a better world.”
― Noam Chomsky