“...in matters of feeling and of the heart, too much is always better than too little.”
“The worst pain ... isn't the pain you feel at the time, it's the pain you feel later on when there's nothing you can do about it, They say that time heals all wounds, But we never live long enough to test that theory ...”
“What does reading do, You can learn almost everything from reading, But I read too, So you must know something, Now I'm not so sure, You'll have to read differently then, How, The same method doesn't work for everyone, each person has to invent his or her own, whichever suits them best, some people spend their entire lives reading but never get beyond reading the words on the page, they don't understand that the words are merely stepping stones placed across a fast-flowing river, and the reason they're there is so that we can reach the farther shore, it's the other side that matters, Unless, Unless what, Unless those rivers don't have just two shores but many, unless each reader is his or her own shore, and that shore is the only shore worth reaching.”
“... that's how life should be, when one person loses heart, the other must have heart and courage enough for both.”
“إنها المشكلة الدائمة نفسها، إذا لم نتكلم نكون تعساء، وإذا تكلمنا نختلف.”
“... the best way of killing a rose is to force it open when it is still only the promise of a bud.”
“There are such moments in life, when, in order for heaven to open, it is necessary for a door to close.”
“هكذا هي الحياة، إنها مليئة بكلمات لا تستحق النطق بها، أو أنها استحقت ذلك في وقت ما، ولم تعد تستحقه، فكل كلمة نقولها تنتزع مكان كلمة أخرى أكثر جدارة منها.”
“We say to the confused, Know thyself, as if knowing yourself was not the fifth and most difficult of human arithmetical operations, we say to the apathetic, Where there's a will, there's a way, as if the brute realities of the world did not amuse themselves each day by turning that phrase on its head, we say to the indecisive, Begin at the beginning, as if beginning were the clearly visible point of a loosely wound thread and all we had to do was to keep pulling until we reached the other end, and as if, between the former and the latter, we had held in our hands a smooth, continuous thread with no knots to untie, no snarls to untangle, a complete impossibility in the life of a skein, or indeed, if we may be permitted one more stock phrase, in the skein of life.”
“الطبيعة البشرية ثرثارة في التعريف ، متهورة وغير رصينة ، مهذارة وعاجزة عن إغلاق فمها وإبقائه مطبقا.”
“we would understand much more about life’s complexities if we applied ourselves to an assiduous study of its contradictions, instead of wasting time
on identities and coherences, seeing as these have a duty to provide their own explanations.”
“The day before is what we bring to the day we're actually living through, life is a matter of carrying along all those days-before just as someone might carry stones, and when we can no longer cope with the load, the work is done, the last day is the only one that is not the day before another day.”
“الانتظار يؤدي إلى ما هو أكثر من إبطال المفاجآت، إنه يخدّر الانفعالات، فكل ما نتمناه أو نخشاه نكون قد عشناه خلال تمنينا له أو خشيتنا منه.”
“يُمكن لنا أن نعتاد. إننا نسمع في أحيان كثيرة، أو أننا نقوله نحن بالذات، يُمكن للمرء أن يعتاد، يقولون، نقول، بهدوء يبدو حقيقيًا، لأنه لا وجود له في الحقيقة، ولم يُكتشف بعد أسلوب آخر للتعبير عن استسلامنا بقدر ممكن من الكرامة، وما لا يسأل عنه أحد: ما هي الكلفة حتى يعتاد أحدنا.”
“A person is not like a thing that you put down in one place and leave, a person moves, thinks, asks, questions, doubts, investigates, probes, and while it is true that, out of a long habit of resignation, he sooner or later ends up looking as if he has submitted to the objects, don't go thinking that this apparent submission is necessarily permanent.”
“إنني أؤمن بأنه توجد فرص في الحياة يتوجب علينا فيها الانقياد لتيار ما يحدث،كما لو أننا نفتقر إلى القوة اللازمة للمقاومة،ولكننا نكتشف فجأة أن النهر قد تحول لمصلحتنا،ولا ينتبه لذلك أحد سوانا،وقد يظن من ينظر إلينا أننا مشرفون على الغرق،في حين أن مركبنا يكون أكثر ثباتا من أي وقت آخر.”
“...we confidently say that it's not worth trying to reach any conclusions merely because we decide to stop halfway along the path that would lead us straight to them.”
“الغريزية تتعايش جنبًا إلى جنب مع الذكاء، ولكنها أسرع منه بصورة غير متناهية، ولهذا يجد الذكاء المسكين نفسه مضحكًا في أحيان كثيرة، وأنه مزردى في مناسبات كثيرة.”
“السفينة المتوقفة لا تسافر ، فمهما يكن ما سيحدث في الغد لابد من العمل اليوم ، ومن يزرع شجرة لا يعرف أيضا إذا ما كان سينتهي مشنوقا عليها .”
“Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be, of knowing, recognizing, and communicating everything that can be humanly experienced and felt. Some say that the main cause of this very serious difficulty lies in the fact that human beings are basically made of clay, which, as the encyclopedias helpfully explain, is a detrital sedimentary rock made up of tiny mineral fragments measuring one two hundred and fifty-sixths of a millimeter. Until now, despite long linguistic study, no one has managed to come up with a name for this.”
“Ni la juventud sabe lo que puede, ni la vejez puede lo que sabe.”
“إنه خطر المظاهر،وعندما تخدعنا تكون الخدعة على الدوام نحو الأسوأ.”
“فالرجال،ويجب علينا أن نعترف بذلك دفعة وحدة،لن يتوصلوا أبدا إلى فهم النساء.”
“There is nothing as sad, nothing as unutterably sad, as an old man crying.”
“... time is a master of ceremonies who always ends up putting us in our rightful place, we advance, stop, and retreat according to his orders, our mistake lies in imagining that we can catch him out.”
“... we are only ever pretending to ourselves, never to other people ...”
“إنها حقيقة جيدة ، فالشباب لا يعرف ما يمكنه تحقيقه ، والشيخوخة لا تتمكن من تحقيق ما تعرفه .”
“ومع ذلك ، ومثلما يحدث في الحياة ، عندما نظن أنهم قد انتزعوا منا كل شئ ، ثم نكتشف فجأة أنه قد بقي لدينا شئ ما ، تظهر هنا أيضا أشياء مبعثرة ، ....”
“فما هو معروف أنه سيحدث يكون بطريقة ما كما لو أنه قد حدث،فالانتظار يؤدي إلى ما هو أكثر من إبطال المفاجآت،إنه يخدر الانفعالات،فكل مانتمناه أو نخشاه نكون قد عشناه خلال تمنيتنا له أو خشيتنا منه.”
“هكذا هي الحياة ، كثيرا ما تتكون من أشياء تنتهي ، وتتكون من أشياء تبدأ أيضا ، لكنها ليست الأشياء نفسها على الإطلاق .”
“When someone needs help, you help. Right?”
“He started touching me. 'How old are you?' He ran his hands over my nose, my mouth, my eyes. I was paralysed. 'Nine. What about you?' 'Nine.' 'When's your birthday?' 'The twelfth of September. And yours?' 'The Twentieth of November.' 'What's your name?' 'Michele. Michele Amitrano. What year are you in at school?' 'The fourth. What about you?' 'The fourth.' 'Same.' 'Same' 'I'm thirsty.' I gave him the bottle”
“You were right and I was wrong. When life hurts more than death, it is not worth living.”
“Whirrun ignored ‘em. ‘Then, when I’ve got two cut,’ and he dropped a pale slab of cheese on one slice then slapped the other on top like he was catching a fly, ‘I trap the cheese between then, and there you have it!’
‘Bread and cheese.’ Yon weighed the half-loaf in one hand and the cheese in the other. ‘Just the same as I’ve got.’ And he bit off the cheese and tossed it to Scorry.
Whirrun sighed. ‘Have none of you no vision?’ He held up his masterpiece to such light as there was, which was almost none. ‘This is no more bread and cheese than a fine axe is wood and iron, or a live person is meat and har.’
‘What is it, then?’ asked Drfod, rocking back from his wet wood and tossing the flint aside in disgust.
‘A whole new thing. A forging of the humble part of bread and cheese into a greater whole. I call it … a cheese-trap.’ Whirrun took a dainty nibble from one corner. ‘Oh, yes, my friends. This tastes like … progress…”
“Shadows are cool and peaceful places for those whose minds are overstocked with treasure.”
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