One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.
― Khalil Gibran
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Medicine, law, business, engineering, these are all noble pursuits, and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.
— Dead Poets Society
"What of art?" she asked.
"It is a malady."
"Love?"
"An illusion."
"Religion?"
"The fashionable substitute for belief."
"You are a sceptic."
"Never! Scepticism is the beginning of faith."
"What are you?"
"To define is to limit."
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
The wars will end and the leaders will shake hands, and that old woman will remain waiting for her martyred son, and that girl will wait for her beloved husband, and the children will wait for their heroic father, I do not know who sold the homeland but I know who paid the price.
— Mahmoud Darwish
I am afraid of falling asleep. To wake up to find that you were there only in my dreams.
— where shadows live
Tumhein lagta hai ki main tumhein apni taqleefein nahi batati
Par tumhe kaise samjhaon ki tumhe dekhte hi mujhe koi taqleef hi nahi rehti
You think I don't tell you my problems?
But how can I make you understand that all my problems disappear just by looking at you?
— where shadows live
(Photo by Dina Nasyrova)
In the era of calamities, you're a moment of peace.
— Nasir Kazmi
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Yours
(now I'm even losing my name - it was getting shorter and shorter all the time and is now: Yours)
― Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena
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