Lost heaven by Ahmed maihope

To begin depriving death of its greatest advantage over us, let us adopt a way clean contrary to that common one; let us deprive death of its strangeness, let us frequent it, let us get used to it; let us have nothing more often in mind than death.. We do not know where death awaits us: so let us wait for it everywhere.

"To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave."

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مُعَوَّدٌ على الجلال والرَهَب
فإنْ رآك لَم تَخَف منه اضطَرَب
نَطلُبُه إذا توانى في الطَلَب
ونَلحَق المَوتَ لِحاقًا إنْ هَرَب
فإنْ تَعِبنا فهو أيضًا في تَعَب

— تميم

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The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

- Attributed to many people

"الموت يقتل الحياة بالخوف حتى قبل أن يجيء. لو رُدّ إلى الحياة لصاحَ بكلِ رجلٍ .. لا تخف .. الخوف لا يمنع من الموت ولكنه يمنع من الحياة"

- أولاد حارتنا | نجيب محفوظ

إذا غامرتَ في شرفٍ مَرومِ
فلا تَقنعْ بِما دُونَ النُّجومِ

فَطَعْمُ المَوتِ في أمرٍ حقير
كطَعمِ الموتِ في أمرٍ عظيمِ

يرَى الجُبَناءُ أنّ العَجزَ عَقْلٌ
وتِلكَ خَديعَةُ الطّبعِ اللّئيمِ

وكلّ شَجاعَةٍ في المَرْءِ تُغني
ولا مِثلَ الشّجاعَةِ في الحَكيمِ

- أبو الطيب المتنبي

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Hannah Arendt assumes that all human activities, if viewed from a sufficiently remote point in the universe, would no longer appear as deeds but as biological processes. Accordingly, for an observer in outer space, motorization would resemble a biological mutation: the human body surrounds itself with a metal housing in the manner of a snail—like bacteria reacting to antibiotics by mutating into resistant strains.

— The Burnout Society

Whoever has any experience in this matter will know how right Cato was when he said: . . . “Never is he more active than when he does nothing, never is he less alone than when he is by himself.”

— Hannah Arendt

Portrait Photograph by Saber Gerami