I wanted to flee by going farther than myself...!

- Jean-Marie G. Le Clezio, from The Book of Flights

We dream – it is good we are dreaming – / It would hurt us – were we awake...!

- Emily Dickinson

The postman, Van gogh.

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Maia Makhateli

“كنت آسف دائمًا للآخرين و أحرص كل الحرص على أن لا أجرحهم أو أوذيهم ولو بكلمة ، ثم أخيرًا أجدني آسف وبشده لنفسي فقط .”

“Sometimes things are exactly as they seem, that’s all.”

- Charles Bukowski

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“You never know how long your words will stay in someone’s mind even long after you’ve forgotten you spoke them.”

Angela Barrett.  From Snow-White. 1993.

“Real love is always chaotic. You lose control; you lose perspective. You lose the ability to protect yourself. The greater the love, the greater the chaos. It’s a given and that’s the secret.”

- Jonathan Carroll

“Soon you’ll realize that many people will love the idea of you but will lack the maturity to handle the reality of you.”

- Reyna Biddy

“I could love you violently, if I let myself.’”

- Sylvia Plath

“The only people I would care to be with now are artists and people who have suffered: those who know what beauty is, and those who know what sorrow is: nobody else interests me.”

- Oscar Wilde

“All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.”

- Edgar Allan Poe

“Quiet people have the loudest minds.”

- Stephen Hawking

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The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.

- Charles Bukowski