“من كانني قبل ان أكونه؟ من كنته قبل ان يكونني ؟من كنت ؟ من ساكون ؟!”
“The strong manly ones in life are those who understand the meaning of the word patience. Patience means restraining one s inclinations. There are seven emotions: joy, anger, anxiety, adoration, grief, fear, and hate, and if a man does not give way to these he can be called patient. I am not as strong as I might be, but I have long known and practiced patience. And if my descendants wish to be as I am, they must study patience.”
“A lot of people see doubt as legitimate philosophical posture. They think of themselves in the middle, whereas of course really, they re nowhere.”
“When Nietszche says, A new commandment I give to you, be hard he is really saying, A new commandment I give to you, be dead. Sensibility is the definition of life.”
“Io avevo bisogno di ammirare innanzi di amare.”
“But the elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time.”
“You can t do that, it makes too much sense.”
“In the eyeball there is a clash between creation and reflection. The two-way globes of sight are magical revolving doors where the creative spirit meets itself in the created spirit. The eye that surveys the universe is the universe s own eye.”
“Don t make me come down there. - God”
“The stupidest people suddenly become a little cleverer when we learn that they think well of us”
“هكــذا دائمــاً هى الحيــاة .. بطيئــة فى تحقيق أحلامِنــا .. و هكـذ دائمــاً هو الموت .. سريع فى خطفِهــا منـــا ..”
“LOOK AT MY BLOOD FLOWERS, BECAUSE I WRITE WITH A SERENE SHARP BLADE THAT SOOTHES. AS MUCH AS CUTS INTO THE DEEPEST PARTS OF MY SOUL.”
“When you don t get love, learn to love yourself more!”
“When shit becomes valuable, the poor will be born without assholes.”
“If he was not exactly a Spartan, he was, you might say, spartanatical. Things happened to you; they were good,or they were bad - and that was the truth about everything.”
“At the same time that I am the content of a relation, I am also that which does the relating.”
“And what is written well and what is written badly...need we ask Lysias or any other poet or orator who ever wrote or will write either a political or other work, in meter or out of meter, poet or prose writer, to teach us this? What is good, PhÊdrus, and what is not good...need we ask anyone to tell us these things?”