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“Man has made a discovery ... the way to make life easy is to make it meaningless.”
― Kierkegaard, Soren

“To speak of these things and to try to understand their nature and, having understood it, to try slowly and humbly and constantly to express, to press out again, from the gross earth or what it brings forth, from sound and shape and colour which are the prison gates of our soul, an image of the beauty we have come to understand—that is art.”
― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

“- a bad conscience is indeed able to make life interesting.”
― Søren Kierkegaard, The Seducer’s Diary

“إنّ في المحادثة تلقيحًا للعقول، وترويحًا للقلب، وتسريحًا للهمّ، وتنقيحًا للأدب”
― أبو حيان التوحيدي, الإمتاع والمؤانسة