"To the sympathetic a masterpiece becomes a living reality which we feel drawn in bonds of comradeship. The masters are immortal, for their loves and fears live in us over and over again."

-Okakura Tenshin

"It didn't much matter which system of thought a man chose to identify himself with, so long as he kept his heart calm, in which case everything would naturally work itself out for the best."

-Amenomori Hōshū

" الحب هو أن نتجاذب كرة النار لا ان نتقاذفها."

-حنين الصايغ

"To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three-parts dead."

-Bertrand Russell

"Life begins, on the other side of despair."

-Sartre

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"وفي رحيل النور
وُلِدَ نورٌ في قلب الإنسان
لا يُطفأ"

-نصير شمه

-John Hearne, The Lost Country

"But it shimmers, it does not stop, and I think it wants me.
I would not mind if it were bones, or a pearl button.

I do not want much of a present, anyway, this year.
After all I am alive only by accident.

I would have killed myself gladly that time any possible way.
Now there are these veils, shimmering like curtains,"

-Sylvia Plath, A Birthday Present

"Deep down I wanted some kind of change. Any change, whether good or bad, would be better than the state of impasse I was in now."

-Sayaka Murata

"Time itself is one more name for death."

-C.S Lewis

-C.S Lewis, A Grief observed

-C.S Lewis, A Grief observed

-C.S Lewis