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Country, religion, family, ideas of civilization, all the sentimental and historical forces that stood between cosmic infinity and the individual, providing some notion of a place within the whole, have been rationalized and have lost their compelling force.

- Allan Bloom
The honesty of this generation of students causes them to laugh when asked to act as though they were powerful agents in world history.

- Allan Bloom
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The honesty of this generation of students causes them to laugh when asked to act as though they were powerful agents in world history. - Allan Bloom
صراحةُ هذا الجيل من الطلاب تجعلُهم يضحكون حين يُطالبون بالتصرّف كما لو كانوا أفرادًا مؤثِّرين في تاريخ العالم.
[The younger generation has] a greater indifference to the past and a loss of a national view of the future. The only common project engaging the youthful imagination is the exploration of space, which everyone knows to be empty.

- Allan Bloom
No wonder that the one novel that remains continuously popular with students is Camus’s The Stranger.

- Allan Bloom
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No wonder that the one novel that remains continuously popular with students is Camus’s The Stranger. - Allan Bloom
I just remembered my friends who love Camus,
Allan Bloom says hi 😂
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And his dark secret love,
Does thy life destroy.

- William Blake, The sick Rose
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A serenade for tenor, horn, and strings
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A serenade for tenor, horn, and strings
وهاي الأغنية كاملة، ببساطة هي عبارة عن مجموعة قصائد قديمة من شعراء مختلفين.
اسمعوها وية الليركس when u feel particulary aristocratic
Forwarded from The Shire (Tetania)
As soon as they envisage from afar their separation, as soon as they foresee the moment which is going to make them strangers to one another, they are already strangers. Each sets up his own little separate system; and both engrossed by the time they will no longer be together, stay only reluctantly.

- Emile, by Rousseau
The presence of choice already changes the character of relatedness.

- Allan Bloom, commenting on the above
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As soon as they envisage from afar their separation, as soon as they foresee the moment which is going to make them strangers to one another, they are already strangers. Each sets up his own little separate system; and both engrossed by the time they will…
ما أنْ يبصرا إحتمالية انفصالهما ولو بعدَ وقتٍ طويل، ما أنْ يتوقعا اللحظة التي ستجعلهما غريبَين بالنسبة لبعضهما البعض، فإنهما يكونان غريبَين بالفعل.
كلٌّ منهما يصنعُ نظامه الخاص والمنفصِل؛ وكلٌ منهما، ما دام منهَمِكًا بالتفكير بالوقتِ الذي لن يكونا به سويةً، يمكثُ مُكرَهًا مع الآخر.
أسد (رمز الآلهة عشتار) من بوابة بابل.
The task is equivalent to squaring the circle, because everyone loves himself most but wants others to love him more than they love themselves.

- Allan Bloom, talking about modern "relationships"
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The task is equivalent to squaring the circle, because everyone loves himself most but wants others to love him more than they love themselves. - Allan Bloom, talking about modern "relationships"
صارت المسألةُ أشبه بإدخالِ الجمل في سَمّ الخياط، لأنّ كل شخصٍ يحبّ ذاته أكثر من أي شيء، لكنه يريد من الآخرين أنْ يحبّوه أكثر مما يحبّون أنفسَهم.

- آلان بلوم وهو يتحدث عن "العلاقات العاطفية"
“Relationships,” not love affairs, are what they have. Love suggests something wonderful, exciting, positive and firmly seated in the passions. A relationship is gray, amorphous, suggestive of a project, without a given content, and tentative. You work at a relationship, whereas love takes care of itself. In a relationship the difficulties come first, and there is a search for common grounds. Love presents illusions of perfection to the imagination and is forgetful of all the natural fissures in human connection. About relationships there is ceaseless anxious talk, the kind one cannot help overhearing in student hangouts or restaurants frequented by men and women who are “involved” with one another, the kind of obsessive prattle so marvelously captured in old Nichols and May routines or Woody Allen films. In one Nichols and May bit, a couple who have just slept together for the first time, assert with all the emptiness of doubt, “We are going to have a relationship.”

- Allan Bloom
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“Relationships,” not love affairs, are what they have. Love suggests something wonderful, exciting, positive and firmly seated in the passions. A relationship is gray, amorphous, suggestive of a project, without a given content, and tentative. You work at…
"علاقاتٌ عاطفية" وليست "علاقاتٍ غرامية" هي ما يملكون. الحب يُشير إلى شيءٍ رائع ومثير وإيجابي وذي جذورٍ عاطفيةٍ عميقة. أما العلاقات، فهي رمادية ومُبهَمة وتوحي بوجود مشروعٍ ما، بلا محتوىً محدد، وهي غير مؤكدة. أنت تعملُ في العلاقة، أما الحبُّ فيجري كما يشاء. في العلاقة تأتي الصعوبات أولًا، وهناك أيضًا البحث عن القواسم المشتركة. أما الحب فيسمح لمخيلتنا أنْ تتوهمَ رؤيةَ الكمال، ويجعلنا نتناسى الحواجز الطبيعية في التواصل البشري.

كما أنّ الحديثَ القلِق عن العلاقات لا ينتهي، وهو نوع الحديث الذي يمكنك أنْ تسمعهُ عَرَضًا بين الطلاب أو في المطاعم التي يتردد لها الرجال والنساء "المرتبطون" ببعضهم، هذا النوع من الثرثرة ذاته الذي تصوّره أفلام وودي آلن أو العروض الكوميدية لنيكولاس وماي (Nicholas and May). في واحدة من عروضهم، نرى رجلًا وامرأة، بعد أنْ ناما سويًا لأول مرة، يصرّحان بانعدام تامٍ لأي شك "يجب أنْ ندخل في علاقة"

- آلان بلوم