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تعال عش في قلبي ولا تدفع الايجار
Come, live in my heart, and pay no rent.
Iranian film director ASGHAR FARHADI, on accepting his Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, A Separation (via claerwen)
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At this time, many young Iranians all over this world are watching us, and I imagine them to be very happy. They are happy not just because of an important award, or a film or a filmmaker, but because at the time, in talk of war, intimidation and aggressions exchanged between politicians, the name of their country, Iran, is spoken here through her glorious culture — a rich and ancient culture that has been hidden under the heavy dust of politics. I proudly offer this award to the people of my country. A people who respect all cultures and civilizations, and despise hostility and resentment.
Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
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He broke my heart. You merely broke my life.
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The outrage is tiresome and deeply hypocritical, in all the tiresome ways you’ve been tired out by before. M.I.A. was illustrating her line, acting out the attitude of the words: performing. Fine, it may not be legal to flip the bird on television, but that’s simply a remnant of the fifties we haven’t shaken. Unless somebody was handing out Xanax with the foam fingers, Lucas Oil Stadium was ringing with the music of profanities last night. More to the point, television viewers were submitted to ad after ad that likened women—negatively—to sofas, cars, and candy. Mr. Winter [of the Parents Television Council] didn’t have anything to say about that, so I’d like to raise both of my middle fingers to him and anyone who thinks profanity is somehow more harmful to our children than images of violence and misogyny. (My two sons, fourteen and eleven, thought the Fiat ad was corny, so I guess they will be safe without Mr. Winter’s intervention.) I say we get out of The Pretending To Be Moral game altogether and use the Internet for important things like posting pictures of cats looking at croissants and PDFs of sensitive government documents.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | The Little Prince
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I did not know what to say to him. I felt awkward and blundering. I did not know how I could reach him, where I could overtake him and go on hand in hand with him once more.
It is such a secret place, the land of tears.
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You should live your life. You should write your name on the earth in gasoline and just light that shit on fire.
Frank O’Hara
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If you’re going to buy a pair of pants you want them to be tight enough so everyone will want to go to bed with you.
Scarlett Thomas, The End of Mr. Y
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There’s still an eternity of knowledge of him that I don’t have. And I want it now as much as I want to breathe.
Richard Brautigan
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Spinning like a ghost
on the bottom of a
top,
I’m haunted by all
the space that I
will live without
you.
Henry VIII’s letter to Anne Boleyn
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Perhaps you don’t understand but I can’t sleep, I can hardly breathe for thinking of you. Your image is before my eyes every waking second.
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For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin — real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.
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I mean, I have the feeling that something in my mind is poisoning everything else.
Haruki Murakami
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If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there’s salvation in life. Even if you can’t get together with that person.
David Foster Wallace, from: “Here and There,” from the collection Girl With Curious Hair
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