stay insane but behave like normal person!

Haven't you learned anything, not even with the approach of death?  Stop thinking all the time that you're in the way, that you're bothering the person next to you. If people don't like it, they can complain. And if they don't have the courage to complain, that's their problem."
page 98

Eduard smiled. Had he understood? Veronika felt afraid - all the manuals of good behavior say that you should never speak of love so directly, and never to a man you barely know. But she decided to continue, because she had nothing to lose.
page 131

I can use my experience to give lectures about men and women who knew the truth about this existence of ours and whose writings can be summed up in one word: Live. If you live, God will live with you. If you refuse to run his risks, he'll retreat to that distant heaven and be merely a subject for philosophical speculation. Everyone knows this but no one takes the first step, perhaps for fear of being called insane.
page 152

You've got nothing to lose. Many people don't allow themselves to love, precisely because of that, because there are a lot of things at risk, a lot of future and a lot of past. In your case, there is only present.
page 162

People will say: 'She's just been released from Villete and now she 's making her husband crazy too.' And he will realize they are right, and he'll thank God because our marriage is starting all over again and because we're both crazy, like those who first invented love.
page 164

She would consider each day as a miracle - which indeed it i,  when you consider the number of unexpected things that could happen in each second of our fragile existences.
page 209

Veronika Decides to Die
Paulo Coelho
translated from Portuguese to English by Margaret Jull Costa 


After reading some books you feel you have changed , you can't be the same person you used to be before reading that book whether you like it or not!  
I'm the first-chapter Veronika in this book and I'm sure so many other people around me are too. But are we going to be the the last-chapter Veronika one day in future? Nothing's for sure, but we better keep trying!
Me

آتش درون یخ شعله می کشد ...

دنیا یک تئاتر است: این فرضیه طبعا فرضیه ی دیگری را هم به دنبال خود می آورد که آن را در مرز دیگری از وجود قرار می دهد. همان فرضیه ای که «کالدرون» عنوان یکی از کمدی های خود قرار داده و آن چنین است: «زندگی رویا است» دیالکتیک پیچیده ای است از بیداری و خواب، از واقعیت و خیال و از عقل و جنون که سرتاپای اندیشه ی دوران باروک را در می نوردد. به دنبال سرگیجه ی کیهان شناختی که کشف «دنیای نو» ایجاد کرده و سبب شده است که «مونتنی» بگوید: «دنیای ما دنیای دیگری را پیدا کرد. و چه کسی می تواند بگوید که آیا این اولین و آخرین برادر دنیای ماست؟» نوعی سرگیجه ی فلسفی نیز آغاز می شود که به منزله ی آستر درونی است. آنچه ما واقعیت می شماریم شاید وهم و خیال است، اما چه کسی می داند که آنچه ما وهم و خیال می شماریم، واقعیت نباشد؟ آیا جنون صورت دیگری از عقل نیست؟ و رویا زندگی نسبتا موقتی نیست؟ ... «من» هشیار ما چنان عجیب و دیوصفت جلوه می کند که ممکن است محصول یک رویا باشد. شاید وجود ما همان سان قابل پشت و رو شدن است که در شعر شاعران باروک می بینیم.


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مکتب های ادبی

رضا سید حسینی


هیچ اگر سایه پذیرد ...

کُره، نه از شیشه

بلکه فراتر از شیشه ی درخشان

فراتر از شیشه ی شکننده

فراتر از شیشه ی کدر

من وهم کوتاهی هستم از باد

من گلم، اما گل هوا

ستاره ام، اما از آب دریا،

بازی زرین طبیعت، 

افسانه ی سرگردان و رویای کوتاه،

قطره ام، اما پر شکوه تر

گل و لایم، اما خوشبخت تر

سرگردانم و جست و خیز کنان ...

من مجموعه ای از رنگ هایم

از برف ها و گل ها

از آب ها و هوا و آتش ها

پر نقش و نگار و جواهرنشان و زرین

من ... آه، من هیچ نیستم.


حباب

ریچارد کراشو

(نمونه ای از آثار دوره ی باروک)

other Veronikas who lived inside her ...

In a world where everyone struggles to survive whatever the cost, how could one judge those people who decide to die? No one can judge. Each person knows the extent of their own suffering or the total absence of meaning in their lives.

page 14


"It's cold, but a lovely morning all the same."said Zedka. "Oddly enough I never used to suffer from depression on cold, grey days like this. I felt as if nature was in harmony with me, that it reflected my soul. On the other hand when the sun appeared, the children would come out to play in the streets, and everyone was happy that it was such a lovely day, and then I would feel terrible, as if that display of exuberance in which I could not participate was somehow unfair."

page 38


She didn't get angry with anyone, because that would mean having no react, having to do battle with the enemy and then having to face unforeseen consequences, such as vengeance. When she had achieved almost everything she wanted in life, she had reached the conclusion that her existence had no meaning, because everyday was the same. And she had decided to die.
page 44

She was in a mental hospital, and so, she could allow herself to feel things that people usually hide. We're all brought up only to love, to accept, to look for ways around things, to avoid conflict. Veronika hated everything, but mainly she hated the way she had lived her life, never bothering to discover the hundreds of other Veronikas who lived inside her and who were interesting, crazy, curious, brave, bold.
page 68

"but what is reality?" "It's whatever the majority deems it to be. It's not necessarily the best or the most logical, but it's the one that supports the desires of society as a whole"
page 87

Veronika Decides to Die
Paulo Coelho

to be continued ...