Villain

[aseaofquotes]

Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

[sputniksea]

“If anyone had opened his arms to me, I would have wept like a child.”

— Albert Camus, Death in the Soul

[nixscriptum]

[weltenwellen]

Alejandra Pizarnik, tr. by Yvette Siegert, from “Psychopathology Ward”, Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962 - 1972

[weltenwellen]

Anaïs Nin, Fire: From “A Journal of Love”: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1934–1937

[weltenwellen]

Ilya Kaminsky, from "While the Child Sleeps, Sonya Undresses", Deaf Republic

[weltenwellen]

Ada Limón, from "Crush", Sharks in the Rivers

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[nizariat]

Stingy with your visits, I saw you in my sleep

I grew to love it, and be content with you, a dream

[nizariat]

“ليس هناك امرأةٌ في الدنيا أجمل منك.. ولكن مشكلتك.. كمشكلة الوردة التي لا تشم عطرها.. كمشكلة الكتاب الذي لا يعرف القراءة There is no woman in the world more beautiful than you But your problem, is like the problem of the rose that does not smell its own perfume Like the problem of the book who does not know how to read.”

— Nizar Qabbani

[yngwrthr]

“He stepped down, avoiding any long look at her as one avoids long looks at the sun, but seeing her as one sees the sun, without looking.”

— Leo Tolstoy, “Anna Karenina”, Part I, IX, 1877.

[aboonoor]

[aboonoor]

"The endurance of Prophet Joseph in regards to not complying with the woman's invite was more graceful than his patience with what his brothers did to him by throwing him into the well, him being sold into slavery, and being separated from his father, etc. This is because he experienced these events without having consented to them; while his patience in keeping away from transgressing was a patience of his choosing, of his goodwill and pleasure, and his striving against himself."

Narrated by Ibn Taymiyyah and reported in Madarij as-Salikeen by Ibn al-Qayyim (v. 2, p. 152)

[aboonoor]

“The wisest person is someone who does good in a state of fear (that their actions were not purely for God), whilst the stupidest person is someone who does evil thinking they’re safe (from God’s anger).”

at-Tabsirah by Ibn al-Jawzi (v. 1, p. 351)

[anamorphosis-and-isolate]

“Sometimes, I imagine how great it would be if we could live our lives without bothering other people.”

— Haruki Murakami, Wind/Pinball: Two Early Novels

[aboonoor]

“The wisest person is someone who does good in a state of fear (that their actions were not purely for God), whilst the stupidest person is someone who does evil thinking they’re safe (from God’s anger).”

at-Tabsirah by Ibn al-Jawzi (v. 1, p. 351)

[lactool]

“and even though I laughed with them, it felt like I was watching the whole thing from somewhere else, like I was watching a movie about my life instead of living it.”

— Turtles All The Way Down by John Green

[aboonoor]

“Pay attention to a person when he speaks for truly, his tongue will scoop up what’s [hidden] in his heart. Is it something sweet, sour, tasteless or salty?”

al-Jawab al-Kafi by Ibn al-Qayyim (v. 1, p. 159)